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YugabyteDB has PostgreSQL on top of Spanner architecture and is apache2 licensed (I work there).

"YugabyteDB Anywhere" is open core though right? Half the value & complexity is in the orchestration stack. It's definitely a step forward, but such licensing is likely still too restrictive to ever supplant Postgres itself (it terms of breadth of adoption).

> "YugabyteDB Anywhere" is open core though right?

No, it's all open source. YugabyteDB Anywhere is just automation & 24/7 core engineering support. All db features are open source. You can re-create Anywhere without needing to touch c/c++.

Note: All features have always been open source (besides incremental backup which will be soon).

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