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YugabyteDB is a commonly used alternative.
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.
They wrote up their rationale here: https://www.yugabyte.com/blog/why-we-changed-yugabyte-db-lic...
Probably 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 t…
The enterprise per core is still an insane figure, based on last time I interacted with sales- would be amazing if this was revised, too, to be more competitive with Planetscale, etc. Would be far easier to recommend CockroachDB if it were more competitive with Planetscale.
For example, planetscale charges 3x as much per gb of storage if I read the pricing correctly.
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Not only that, but according to the licence agreement, there are "technical countermeasures" to stop you from using the product if you were to block telemetry with a firewall (presumably it stops working if the telemetry server doesn't send back an acknowledgement), and "You understand and agree that Licensor may use and disclose personal information collected as part of Telemetry in accordance with Licensor's Privac…
In the closed source world it's common enough that free trials will be something along the lines of "we give you a license key tied to your name, and every time you start the software it calls into our license server to validate the license key" It's bad, but it's not unusual if you use closed-source software.
What are the remaining use cases for CockroachDB where there isn't a better/open-source alternative?
This feels dishonest. What percentage of the world’s business need a system like CockroachDB? Of those, what percentage are under 10 million in revenue?
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Like other folks have said, anytime you see a CLA, you see the true intentions of the project. A project that will always be FOSS won't have a need for a CLA.
The ASF requires a CLA for all regular contributors or large contributions, so I don’t think this is a particularly good barometer.
[1]: https://www.apache.org/foundation/license-faq.html#IsItFree
[2]: https://www.apache.org/foundation/records/incorporator.html
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Like other folks have said, anytime you see a CLA, you see the true intentions of the project. A project that will always be FOSS won't have a need for a CLA.
The ASF requires a CLA for all regular contributors or large contributions, so I don’t think this is a particularly good barometer.
I'm trying to figure out how this is better than Postgress ? Does it perform significantly better to justify the cost? Back in the day I worked heavily with databases and we always tilted towards open source.
Presumably only a small subset of postgres users really need this feature - and those that do, are big enough to need an enterprise licence.
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If what you mean by "horizontal scale of writes" is a distributed database, then there is FoundationDB, which is one of the very few databases that offers strict serializability (see https://jepsen.io/consistency ). But it isn't quite comparable, because it isn't an easy-to-use shiny tool, rather a database-building toolkit (hence the name).
What? FoundationDB disappeared down the memory hole whenever Apple acquired them.