Comment on Linux Foundation says yes to NoSQL via DocumentDB
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 20 hours agoMicrosoft made some database software called DocumentDB (which utilizes a kind of database called NoSQL) that the Linux Foundation is now accepting into their list of projects they support. This was done because, unlike others like MongoDB, this one called DocumentDB was released under a license that people can use without certain restrictions that MongoDB put inside their license.
The core issue is that big tech companies regularly take software developed by open source devs and then use it for their big money machines without giving anything back to the original developers. MongoDB was fed up with this and started using a license that forces companies to publicize the code of the projects they use MongoDB for. Big Tech doesnt like that, because they really like money and not sharing how they make that money.
“Today, the market has spoken,” Farkas wrote on Tuesday. “The Linux Foundation has announced the adoption of the DocumentDB project to create an open standard with MongoDB compatibility, the exact thing we were sued for earlier this year.”
So now they have a software suite that people can use to replace their MongoDB systems.
MCasq_qsaCJ_234@lemmy.zip 20 hours ago
But MongoDB had an AGPL license. Why did they decide to change to a more restrictive one?
ncrav@lemmings.world 20 hours ago
MongoDB was never about open source but about making money. 10+ years ago they were trying to market their JSON store as capable of anything when it could not even handle objects larger than 64 MB: yeah I know you use collections not nesting but have you tried to aggregate complex data without working around that limit?
The fact that it still exists when there are alternatives that are faster and more efficient amazes me.
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 20 hours ago
According to the company: mongodb.com/…/mongodb-issues-new-server-side-publ…
They are totally morally correct imo, but reality simply doesnt work like that.
They also just spent a bit too much money on a single project from what it look like.