RethinkDB source relicensed, donated to the Linux Foundation

Posted Feb 7, 2017 1:28 UTC (Tue) by njs (subscriber, #40338)
In reply to: RethinkDB source relicensed, donated to the Linux Foundation by jhoblitt
Parent article: RethinkDB source relicensed, donated to the Linux Foundation

RethinkDB is by all accounts a pretty impressive piece of tech. It's one of the few "distributed databases" to actually live up to the name in Aphyr's tests: https://aphyr.com/posts/329-jepsen-rethinkdb-2-1-5

Compare to MongoDB, RethinkDB's most direct competitor: https://aphyr.com/tags/MongoDB

Their post-mortem is also worthwhile reading: http://www.defstartup.org/2017/01/18/why-rethinkdb-failed...

The CNCF (i.e., these folks: https://www.cncf.io/about/members) paying off the defunct company's creditors to relicense the code is a pretty extraordinary step. (The only precedent I can think of is the crowdfunding campaign that freed Blender?) This should give some idea about the value that at least some people perceive in it.