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Migrate away from commercial database products to commercial cloud products. Why give away your money when you can give away your data too?

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Nobody forces you to. The software is available under the Apache 2.0 license.

https://babelfishpg.org/blog/releases/2021/10/babelfish-laun...

Patches for postgres and extensions are available on GitHub. Anyone can build their own version of postgres with babelfish. It’s all licensed under Apache 2.0.

That's a salient point.

At the same time, the engineering and domain knowledge expertise required to pull this off is undeniably impressive.

This takes the ORM "compatibility promise" into new territory, maybe even a new stratosphere. Imagine if someone (or company) starts a comparable open-source translation extension layer targeting Postgres as the backend. That would be interesting!

Maybe start with the easier case of SQLite->Pg.

> Imagine if someone (or company) starts a comparable open-source translation extension layer targeting Postgres as the backend

That's what Babelfish is.

I wonder if orafce faced same type of comments after early releases.

encrypt at rest

Presumably the more realistic problem is having your data/business held for ransom by price hikes, not that AWS would jeopardize its reputation just to peek at your data.

Did you know that Amazon is being sued for using client data to compete against them right now?

Not from the databases they host. seller data is different.

https://www.businessinsider.com.au/amazon-uses-seller-data-c...

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