[PeterZaitsev]

MongoDB of course has right to change their license to anything they want. One day they might decide to go proprietary with no notice too...

According to our poll many users will seek alternatives for MongoDB because of the license change

https://www.percona.com/blog/2018/10/24/poll-mongodb-license...

MongoDB probably feels they have reached critical mass so it does not matter any more...

[asien]

>MongoDB probably feels they have reached critical mass so it does not matter any more...

They have become a new standard and they are aware of it.

Just look at any bootcamps for devs this days , it’s basically always JS + MongoDB. Not Postgres or MySQL , Mongo.

Mongo has become the new MySQL for a lot of devs these days.

It’s often the only DBMS they know...

These move is somewhat coherent with what others are doing in the industry ( Redis Enterprise Modules new licence , Docker preventing download without creating an account etc...)

Open Source is now Venture Backed , as a result it needs to make profit.

[PeterZaitsev]

Good points... But same as MongoDB replaced as database of choice for developer training it can be replaced again

[com2kid]

> Just look at any bootcamps for devs this days , it’s basically always JS + MongoDB. Not Postgres or MySQL , Mongo.

The online classes love Firebase. :-D

But yeah, I had to explain to a bootcamp dev a few weeks ago what Postgres was. I felt rather sad.

[apl002]

I am a bootcamp dev (still in it) and I can confirm that its all node + mongo. I know what postgres is but obviously dont know anything about it technically. I am struggling to understand what this license change means for someone like myself who is building a web app with mongo...

[village-idiot]

Postgres is orders of magnitude safer, sometimes a bit slower, but requires a bit more forethought when it comes to planning a schema to match your models. You typically appreciate this more in maintenance and later development more than you appreciate it up front.

The general risk with any for profit open source company is either them pulling all the good features into the paid version, or suddenly changing your license so that closed source projects have to either stay on the old versions or pay for a commercial license.