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I'm not even going to read this, we all know what it is and we all know it's just the first step in a long series of very shitty changes, expect all new development to be in the "contact us" tier.

Ignorance was maybe excusable the first 15 times, but if you keep falling for corporate owned rug-pull OSS packages in 2024, you deserve what's coming for you.

Weird databases are NFTs for startup founders. You're not too cool for Postgres. Use it.

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Can you please not post in the flamewar style here? It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

You can make your substantive points without it, so please do that instead.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Sometimes it's a reasonable choice to pay for software, especially if you're a large company that can easily afford it. It's not like "just using postgres" in a manner similar to Cockroach's capabilities is trivial, building your own solution also has a whole set of risks.

If you're absolutely opposed to ever paying for a software solution, then sure, avoid commercial projects. I'm happy to spend my (company's) money on useful software.

Without marketing bs, what's something that can be done only with Cockroach and not postgres or other truly-OSS alternatives? I'm curios because I've been reading news about it forever but never had the chance to work with it

Transactional workloads over datasets in the single digit petabytes.

Think of it as a replacement for spanner with a postgres frontend. It's about global availability and replication without application-level sharding.

Maybe not cool, but you can, in fact, be both too big and too geographically distributed for Postgres.

This actually moves stuff out of the "contact us" tier, where it used to be, and makes everything available to all.

There are new hooks, but paywalling capabilities was not the point here.

New hooks like disabling my database if the telemetry API call fails?

Per their announcement, it sounds like a free user will have to get an annual Enterprise Free license key to use it.

I'd hope that'd be automated, but could also be a "contact us" tier to audit revenue. Time will tell.

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