Are open source databases dead?
Our first response when hearing of the license change was that at least Elastic didn't invent yet another weird new license, and instead grabbed one off the shelf. Customer legal departments can rest easy that they won't have to vet yet another strange licensing offshoot. And secondly, after we started Googling all the details, cookie tracking triggered a wave of "save on the cost of Elasticsearch log analytics" ads from ChaosSearch. It's the latest in a saga that refuses to end: can open source databases avoid becoming victims of their own success? It dates back to MongoDB's 2018 embrace o...
Source: zdnet.com