[tvink]

Free license:

> Telemetry Required (excluding ephemeral clusters of 7 days or less)

So not free, then.

Is there already a popular fork?

[aduffy]

Yes, the popular fork is called Postgres. You can find many vendors who will let you run it on one node cheaply. It’s also free to self-host.

[mardifoufs]

In what way is postgres similar to cockroachdb? Except for being a database. Going by that standard you might as well say that Access is an alternative to postgres. Which it technically is but...

[geenat]

Citus gets close for many usecases but the HA story sucks: https://github.com/citusdata/citus/issues/7602

[Thaxll]

PG is nowhere close of What Cockroach does and probably never will.

[candiddevmike]

CockroachDB was already under the BSL. It's interesting that they're further restricting it... Perhaps the BSL isn't the panacea folks are making it out to be.

[kragen]

it hasn't been open-source since 02019 according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CockroachDB#History so if there are popular forks they'd have to be five years old

[cvwright]

BSL code automatically converts to open source at a specified date. So probably several releases since then are now as open source as anything else in the world. And if not, then they will be soon - BSL allows a maximum 5 year delay.

[collinmanderson]

> 02019

Why not 002019? 6 digits. That would be valid a lot longer.

[sigmonsays]

This is really painful, I don't want this pattern of data collection being common, Telemetry included.