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Katz: ClickHouse partnered with Alibaba Cloud on multi-year revenue share agreement
“In China and other parts of Asia, we've partnered with Alibaba, specifically all the cloud for them to redistribute our cloud binary as an enterprise version. And we'll, we have a revenue share agreement in place with them for the next few years.”
Katz: ClickHouse will keep its Apache 2.0 open-source license
“We feel that today the right decision for the community is to stay with an Apache two license, and we're excited about that. Like I said before, you know, we're not moving away from open source, quite the contrary.”
Aaron Katz saw Elastic lose prominent workloads to ClickHouse
“When I was at the previous company that I worked at another open source technology company, we started to see click house pop up in the wild. And we actually started to lose some pretty prominent workloads to the technology.”
Aaron Katz: ClickHouse skipped enterprise licensing to go straight to cloud
“Having been through that journey, I just decided to skip that first step and go straight to cloud.”
Aaron Katz: ClickHouse intentionally delayed sales team expansion until reaching PMF
“We didn't want to build on the go to market side until we had established product market fit and had referenceable customers.”
Aaron Katz: ClickHouse currently lacks an outbound sales motion
“We really don't right now. We should, we don't.”
Aaron Katz: ClickHouse support engineers handle pre-sales alongside post-sales
“Our support engineers are as involved in pre-sales As they are in post sales.”
Katz: ClickHouse will not mandate a return to office for distributed employees
“We're not going to have some return to work mandate for people that are obviously distributed.”
ClickHouse has no plans to build its own visualization layer
“Today, we don't have plans to build our own visualization layer, like you've seen other open source companies do. We plan to partner.”
ClickHouse is relocating its engineering team to Amsterdam
“We're actually, they're in the process of relocating to Amsterdam to make it just easier for all of us to do business together.”
Katz: ClickHouse workloads are split evenly across SaaS analytics, warehouse migrations, and observability
“Somebody that needs very low latency, high concurrent analytical workloads, typically to power, let's say a B to B SaaS application. That's about a third of the use cases that we see. Another third would be traditional cloud-based data warehouses that are not …”
ClickHouse plans to add 100 employees over the next year
“We went, basically went from zero to a 150 employees in two years, and we're gonna add another hundred in the next year.”
Katz: ClickHouse focuses on real-time analytics, not predictive modeling
“In terms of predictive analytics and modeling, I think that's kind of the last, I wouldn't call it the last mile, but it's something that we're thinking about in the future. It's not something that we are primarily focused on today. We're more focused on the r…”