CockroachDB license change
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CockroachDB license change
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#2> On November 18, 2024, we will eliminate our Core offering and consolidate on a single, robust CockroachDB Enterprise license
That is incredibly short notice.
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#3Overall I feel like this is a step in the right direction.
I do love Cockroach, but the old licensing model was pretty brutal if you required any enterprise features (ex: incremental backup).
For reference, some other data stores doing "horizontal scale of writes" ..any others I'm missing ?
* MySQL: Vitess, Planetscale, TiDB, MariaDB Spider
* Postgres: Citus, YugabyteDB, YDB, Neon
* SQLite: mvsqlite, marmot
* Document: ScyllaDB, Cassandra, DynamoDB
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#4Free license:
> Telemetry Required (excluding ephemeral clusters of 7 days or less)
So not free, then.
Is there already a popular fork?
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#5at least should still cover a lot of businesses under the free tier
> Individuals and businesses, under $10M in annual revenue, can use CockroachDB Enterprise for free
Re: CockroachDB license change
#6Overall I feel like this is a step in the right direction. I do love Cockroach, but the old licensing model was pretty brutal if you required any enterprise features (ex: incremental backup). For reference, some other data stores doing "horizontal scale of writes" ..any others I'm missing ? * MySQL: Vitess, Planetscale, TiDB, MariaDB Spider * Postgres: Citus, YugabyteDB, YDB, Neon * SQLite: mvsqlite, marmot * Documen…
I don’t believe Neon supports multiple write nodes.
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#8> On November 18, 2024, we will eliminate our Core offering and consolidate on a single, robust CockroachDB Enterprise license That is incredibly short notice.
only a problem if you need to update
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#9We will probably end up removing CockroachDB from our infra due to this change. It also makes me a bit worried about their long term viability. How much ARR does CockroachDB have and what was their last round valuation...?
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#10Probably a good move. I'd looked at Cockroach before for a project - they basically disqualified themselves from the start by nerfing the "core" version so bad it was useless, while Enterprise was some absolutely insane figure for a cash-strapped startup. While it was possible to hotfix the code to get around their restrictions - we eventually just used something else.
This at least gets the full-fledged product in the door at startups. Say what you want about the timing or the BSL but I think this makes sense business-wise.