This GitHub repository is just the database, what about the code that holds together their cloud resources? I was not able to find it.
They criticize AWS for making money on Elasticsearch for example, AWS is "taking advantage of the R&D efforts of others". So Amazon is making money on a "serverless" / cloud experience. At the same time, it is known that Amazon is contributing back to Elasticsearch [1]. To that regard, I find their business model really similar to the one AWS is relying upon.
"Amazon has a history of offering services that take advantage of the R&D efforts of others: for example, Amazon Elasticsearch Service, Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka,[...]"
And at the end of the article they promote how they themselves rely on other people hard work:
"TimescaleDB uses a dramatically different design principle: build on PostgreSQL. As noted previously, this allows TimescaleDB to inherit over 25 years of dedicated engineering effort that the entire PostgreSQL community has done to build a rock-solid database that supports millions of applications worldwide."
In the end, it sounds like they are doing exactly what Amazon is doing with open-source.
They criticize AWS for making money on Elasticsearch for example, AWS is "taking advantage of the R&D efforts of others". So Amazon is making money on a "serverless" / cloud experience. At the same time, it is known that Amazon is contributing back to Elasticsearch [1]. To that regard, I find their business model really similar to the one AWS is relying upon.
[1] https://www.techrepublic.com/article/aws-contributes-to-elas...