• limonfiesta@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Generally the elastic or usage/volumetric type billing structures are used on SaaS/cloud products, not on-prem.

    Although it’s entirely possible that elasticsearch, and other vendors in the space use that pricing model for their on-prem customers.

    Regardless, that’s even more of a reason why it would be very difficult to give a quote without being first having a presales meeting with a solution architect or knowledgeable rep.

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      2 months ago

      How about instead of elastic customers moved to Redis or Postgres ?

      Does the pricing/licensing suddenly change ? Hmm ?

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        Elasticsearch provides a different feature set than Redis or Postgres. I’ve seen apps that use all 3… but anyway.

        It is a little weird to charge per-seat for a search database that is usually integrated into a product, and not used directly by employees. Usually that kind of pricing model is reserved for developer tools like Splunk (notoriously overpriced), or game engines like Unity/Unreal Engine.