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What will you switch to? I feel like there isn’t a good alternative.

YugabyteDB is a commonly used alternative.

According to Wikipedia, Yugabyte (the company) has taken 290 million dollars of VC money. It's probably a safe assumption that they will follow the same path soon enough.

While the future is unwritten, FWIW in 2019 Yugabyte moved to Apache 2.0, open-sourcing features that were previously paywalled.

They wrote up their rationale here: https://www.yugabyte.com/blog/why-we-changed-yugabyte-db-lic...

This won't prevent them back to paywall in future if investors ask.

True, but unlike BSL you can fork the last Apache commit the day they do.

How's their business growing compared to Cockroach?

Also has a CLA: https://cla-assistant.io/yugabyte/yugabyte-db

Application-level sharding?

Yugabyte does automatic sharding

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