As a vendor, you just worry about acquiring your data and dumping it into your favorite database. Give us the read-only credentials and we’ll take it from there. We handle distribution and give you tools to configure automatic versioning. (Ultimately we can reduce this even further, so you don’t need to maintain a database and can write directly to your virtual Postgres database at Splitgraph).

As a consumer, you just need to connect to one database and you can query any table you’ve been granted access to, using your existing Postgres client. Or you can use a REST API that exists for every version of every dataset.

We’ve gotta add all the billing, access controls, and some web UI, but otherwise this all works now. We’re a long way from focusing on any marketplace aspect though. We’re prioritizing the intra-organizational use case for now (where they over-rely on jargon like this, btw).