Hacker News: PeterZaitsev

New comment by PeterZaitsev in "MinIO repository is no longer maintained"

PeterZaitsev — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 16:41:10 +0000

The problem goes as well - there is a fair amount of users who are happy to pay for OSS software, yet a lot of VC funded companies in the chase of growth invest much more than Open Source ecosystem is willing to fund... the usual result is change of license

New comment by PeterZaitsev in "RooDB outperforms MySQL on all benchmarks"

PeterZaitsev — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 20:04:05 +0000

Hehe. "All Benchmarks" he says...

New comment by PeterZaitsev in "FreeSQL – Try Oracle Database SQL Without Login"

PeterZaitsev — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 17:50:14 +0000

Is it like free does of heroin so you get addicted and later pay dearly ? :)

In the fair world freesql.com would have hosted PostgreSQL

New comment by PeterZaitsev in "We cut our Mongo DB costs by 90% by moving to Hetzner"

PeterZaitsev — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 16:05:10 +0000

Note, if you're looking for MongoDB Enterprise features you can find many of them with Percona Server for MongoDB, which you can use for free the same way as MongoDB Community

New comment by PeterZaitsev in "Show HN: EloqDoc: MongoDB-compatible doc DB with object storage as first citizen"

PeterZaitsev — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 18:28:58 +0000

I see the license is AGPLv3 while current MongoDB versions as SSPL - does it means you took the MongoDB Parser circa 2018 as a base ?

New comment by PeterZaitsev in "Migrating from AWS to Hetzner"

PeterZaitsev — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 21:56:05 +0000

There is no one size fits all. On the small scale "managed" cloud which takes care of as many things as possible is effective. As you scale though it will cost proportional to environment size, except some discount. With solutions like Hetzner you get a lot more of hardware for the price but have to invest more labor into managing it, with automation however this labor does not grow nearly as much as your environment size.

New comment by PeterZaitsev in "OpenTelemetry collector: What it is, when you need it, and when you don't"

PeterZaitsev — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 13:45:32 +0000

You can also consider https://coroot.com - it supports integration both with Collector and without as well as simulated eBPF traces for applications which are not Otel enabled.

New comment by PeterZaitsev in "Nullable but not null"

PeterZaitsev — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 18:22:03 +0000

Should not we look for database to be able to do online, efficient non locking addition of column with any default value, not just NULL rather than application to have a complicated and fragile logic ?

New comment by PeterZaitsev in "Show HN: VeilStream – prod-like data without the PII"

PeterZaitsev — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 14:32:30 +0000

Is there GitHub link or something ? Right now as I follow the link all it wants is for me to "login" before showing anything at all

New comment by PeterZaitsev in "Show HN: SelfDB – Ditch Supabase and Firebase Lock-In, Self-Host Simply"

PeterZaitsev — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 12:39:30 +0000

Love hearing Open Source and SelfHosted but I do not clearly see link to the Github or other place where source code is. There is no link to the code in the launch message either.

New comment by PeterZaitsev in "SQL Workbench – Republicans not welcome"

PeterZaitsev — Fri, 30 May 2025 12:53:41 +0000

One one side creators are welcome to choose whom to offer their software, on the other I wonder how it will stand in regard to "anti discrimination" in various countries.

In any case, just please do not call this Open Source :)

New comment by PeterZaitsev in "ClickHouse raises $350M Series C"

PeterZaitsev — Thu, 29 May 2025 15:42:56 +0000

What differences from original mission do you see ?

New comment by PeterZaitsev in "Show HN: PgDog – Shard Postgres without extensions"

PeterZaitsev — Tue, 27 May 2025 19:06:14 +0000

This looks awesome!

What can be challenge with such solutions is getting the last 1% right when it comes to sharding tricky queries properly (or at least detecting queries which are not handled properly) and also isolation and consistency

New comment by PeterZaitsev in "Open WebUI changed license from BSD-3 to Open WebUI license with CLA"

PeterZaitsev — Tue, 06 May 2025 05:58:43 +0000

Yep. This "little addition" to the license will likely make it non Open Source according to standard definition. It reminds me "Commons Clause" which Redis tried to add to its license years ago... and later pulled back.

I understand OpenWebUI team pain and perhaps not everything they do, they should do as Open Source

In my opinion you should think about Open Source as fundamental science - if you discover Gravity, people are going to use it and often not giving you any credit.

New comment by PeterZaitsev in "Show HN: VectorVFS, your filesystem as a vector database"

PeterZaitsev — Tue, 06 May 2025 00:50:12 +0000

I think comparing it to Vector Database is confusing as database would typically mean indexes and some sort of query support.

Storing Embeddings with File is interesting concept... we already do it for some file formats (ie EXIF), where this one is generalized... yet you would need to have some actual database to load this data into to process at scale.

Another issue I see is support for different models and embedding formats to make this data really portable - like I can take my file drop it into any system and its embedding "seamlessly" integrates

New comment by PeterZaitsev in "Redis is open source again"

PeterZaitsev — Fri, 02 May 2025 02:55:41 +0000

If you USE Redis, you do not have to if you Embed Redis you do. Same with GPL

New comment by PeterZaitsev in "Redis is open source again"

PeterZaitsev — Fri, 02 May 2025 01:05:35 +0000

Yep. Actually if Redis would end up in CNCF and Redis Labs could provide commercial hosting, extensions - this would be outcome I would be excited about

New comment by PeterZaitsev in "Redis is open source again"

PeterZaitsev — Fri, 02 May 2025 01:02:24 +0000

Note AGPL license is in completely different class compared to BSD. Where BSD was level playing field allowing anyone to do commercial derivatives, now only Redis can do it.

I also question whenever this decision comes from the pure change of heart rather than threat of Valkey... and if so what else should we expect in the future

New comment by PeterZaitsev in "Kronotop: Horizontally scalable, distributed, transactional document database"

PeterZaitsev — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 10:38:45 +0000

Looked at the repo. License of mix of Apache 2.0 and BSL is rather unclear.

New comment by PeterZaitsev in "Observability 2.0 and the Database for It"

PeterZaitsev — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 00:31:01 +0000

I'm not sure whole "Observability 2.0" focuses on the most pressing problem, which is complexity, both in deployment and usage. At Coroot we focus not on the format of the data and whenever it should be one thing or several "pillars" but rather how easy is it to install it and get the value of resolving issues quickly and easily when you need to. https://coroot.com/