Why Nobody Pays for Database Software

This was a horrifying read, to quote:

> Both MongoDB and Elastic are public companies with financial statements showing they are losing nearly $40mln per quarter. Redis Labs just completed a series E where they confirmed they are not cashflow positive let alone profitable, and CockroachDB admits to having only 50 enterprise customers. Combined these four companies have raised nearly a billion dollars in venture capital.

But, the title is misleading. Many pay for database software, sql server costs about 15k USD per core and year iirc.

Title should add: Open Source?

Oracle. Look it up.

It’s like java, no-one writes blogs about it but the majority of industry runs on it.