November 2024 newsletter

Inside this issue

GA release
Community events recap
Interesting reads
Updates from the database industry

General Availability release

November 13 marks an important milestone for us: we just released the stable version of Quesma. We can not be more proud and happy about this. Here it is: hard work, commitment, great feedback from our early adopters.

If you missed it, here’s a snapshot: Quesma, now available to the developer community as a Docker container under the Elastic code-available license, allows you to keep your Kibana or OpenSearch Dashboards running smoothly as you migrate to new backends like ClickHouse or Hydrolix.

Quesma translates Elastic Query Language (EQL) into SQL on the fly, serving up results in a format that’s fully compatible with your dashboards. It’s your bridge for a smoother migration, without losing the familiar dashboards or insights you rely on.

Community events recap

Our team joined the Google Cloud Summit Poland at the PGE arena, connecting with industry peers to share what we’re building for the future of database infrastructure.

Our Founding Engineer, Przemysław Hejman, delivered a crisp 15-minute talk on how Quesma’s database gateway solution is tackling one of today’s biggest challenges in data-heavy architectures. It was an ideal setting to spark conversations, swap insights, and showcase how we’re rethinking database issues in a fresh way.

Jacek Migdal, our CEO, and Antoni Olendzki, our GTM Lead, just wrapped up an inspiring trip to San Francisco and Salt Lake City for CloudX and KubeCon. With our EQL-to-SQL use case in full swing, they had an exhilarating time bouncing ideas off the industry’s top minds, brainstorming how our gateway could tackle even more challenges. Exciting things to come!

Big shoutout to Marty Kagan and Antony Falco from Hydrolix for swinging by our booth at KubeCon. After months of remote teamwork, it was cool to finally catch up face-to-face and talk shop. Couldn’t ask for better partners to help us drive innovation in observability.

Interesting reads

Curious about why Grafana and Elastic—two open-source giants—took such different paths? In our latest blog post, discover how Grafana’s ‘Big Tent’ approach turned a holiday project into a $6B business, while Elastic doubled down on search. Explore the ups and downs of each path, from forks to IPOs, and why both tools are redefining observability today. Perfect for anyone wanting a peek behind the scenes of open-source success stories!

Updates from the database industry

PostgreSQL analytics extensions: increased activity with PostgreSQL extensions, such as pg_parquet, Mooncake (Khosla Ventures), and pg_duckdb. In response, pg_analytics became open-source.

NoSQL decline: some NoSQL communities are seeing declines (sample article).

BigQuery enhancement: Google BigQuery introduced pipe syntax for SQL, simplifying data handling.

K1 buys MariaDB for just $37M—big downround.

Google published paper SQL Has Problems. We Can Fix Them: Pipe Syntax In SQL.
- Big uptick in the database vendor, including Spark and Sqlite prototype implementation.
- Very neat approach, more pragmatic than previous attempts.
- The possibility of extending with custom AI operators might be a killer use case.