[shadow28]

YugabyteDB is a commonly used alternative.

[jen20]

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.

[spiffytech]

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...

[redwood]

How's their business growing compared to Cockroach?

[riku_iki]

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

[largbae]

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

[remram]

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