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0 pointsshadow281y ago0 comments

YugabyteDB is a commonly used alternative.

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According to Wikipedia, Yugabyte (the company) has taken 290 million dollars of VC money. It's probably a safe assumption that they will follow the same path soon enough.

spiffytech1y ago

While the future is unwritten, FWIW in 2019 Yugabyte moved to Apache 2.0, open-sourcing features that were previously paywalled.

They wrote up their rationale here: https://www.yugabyte.com/blog/why-we-changed-yugabyte-db-lic...

redwood1y ago

How's their business growing compared to Cockroach?

riku_iki1y ago

This won't prevent them back to paywall in future if investors ask.

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remram1y ago

Also has a CLA: https://cla-assistant.io/yugabyte/yugabyte-db

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