[wuputah]

Hi, JD here, Hydra's CTO. It's still early days and we are considering open source; for now, we wanted to leave our options open, and OSS feels like a one-way door. I think you make a great point here - thanks for sharing your past pain / experience. Definitely food for thought.

Our "no lock-in" claim refers to your data, since Hydra is Postgres, you're not stuck using "HydraDB" forever -- it's relatively easy to migrate in or out since you can use well established Postgres tools. We also are open to licensing the product should you wish to self-host, on-prem, etc.