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limonfiesta@lemmy.world 2 months agoGenerally that elastic or usage/volumetric based 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 building 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.
maniii@lemmy.world 2 months ago
How about instead of elastic customers moved to Redis or Postgres ?
Does the pricing/licensing suddenly change ? Hmm ?
xthexder@l.sw0.com 2 months ago
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.