OpenAI Acquires Rockset

A database is core to your infrastructure...finding out your database is going away is a horrifying situation. Finding out that the time you have to migrate is a few months. Agh.

As others will say, there are options. Rockset helpfully posts links to a bunch of comparisons on their website, and these alternatives include ClickHouse, Elasticsearch, Druid, etc.. https://rockset.com/real-time-analytics-comparison/

I'm inherently biased (as a member of the ClickHouse team). But do check ClickHouse out.

You can always come hang out in our Slack (clickhouse.com/slack) and, of course, the combination of hosted ClickHouse (clickhouse.com/cloud) and the open-source (github.com/clickhouse) may add a bit of comfort when your vendor up and disappears via acquisition.

To anyone else who may be confused like I was: Rockset will, in fact, "gradually transition current customers off Rockset". The OpenAI announcement linked above doesn't say so, but the Rockset announcement does:

https://rockset.com/blog/openai-acquires-rockset/

Month-to-month users been given until September 30, which is a very short amount of time for a major infrastructure transition. Enterprise users are given a vague "talk to your account manager" answer:

https://docs.rockset.com/documentation/docs/faq

In other words, the above isn't just FUD from a competitor, there legitimately are going to be a lot of frantic refugees in the coming months.