CockroachDB gets startup friendly license

Seems like awesome news for startups desiring a database which horizontally scales writes.

The old licensing model was pretty brutal if you required any enterprise features.

New license looks promising!

For reference, some other data stores doing horizontal scale of writes:

* MySQL: Vitess, Planetscale, TiDB, MariaDB Spider

* Postgres: Citus, YugabyteDB, YDB, Neon

* SQLite: mvsqlite, marmot

* Document: ScyllaDB, Cassandra, DynamoDB

The article title has since been changed to

"Cockroach Labs shakes up its licensing to force bigger companies to pay"

Startup Friendly.... no more than Oracle