| > "As part of the acquisition, we made an important decision: not only to keep PeerDB open source" > "Here goes the Open Source reference to our validation logic." > "PeerDB Open Source Repository" I hate to be that guy, but PeerDB seems to be governed by the Elastic License [1] which makes it NOT open source. The difference is not small, but significant for many. For one, it won't get integrated into other OSS projects. In my particular case, we have integrated Debezium Embedded into StackGres, as a high level object (CRD) named SGStream [2]. It allows Postgres logical replication from Postgres and exports to another Postgres and/or CloudEvents. No Kafka required. We'd love to consider other alternatives like PeerDB, but not being OSS is a red line we can't cross (having said that, we're really happy with Debezium in general, but having competition and alternatives it's always great). [1]: https://github.com/PeerDB-io/peerdb/blob/main/LICENSE.md [2]: https://stackgres.io/doc/latest/reference/crd/sgstream/#sgst... [edit: formatting] |
The wording in that post was an unintentional miss on my part. Apologies for that. We’ve just fixed it. Thanks for flagging it!
To add some context, PeerDB was originally released under ELv2 well before the acquisition. During the acquisition we made a choice to keep the project as-is rather than change its license, so this wasn’t a new decision made at that time — just continuity with how the project already existed.
We appreciate the feedback, around integration and downstream OSS adoption. That overall makes sense. We’ll take it into account as we think about licensing going forward.
Separately, I really wish you tried PeerDB out. The ease-of-use and performance around larger Postgres datasets (TBs to 10s of TB) would’ve been something you would have probably appreciated. That is something we optimized a lot on over that last few years. May be sometime in the future! :)