CockroachDB has announced a change in licensing policy, discontinuation of the Core version of its DBMS and a significant limitation of free options. The changes will be applied starting with release 24.3, scheduled for November. The CockroachDB code will continue to be available, but under a restrictive license (the "code available" model). Until now, the company has offered two DBMS options: the free CockroachDB Core, which offers basic functionality, and the paid CockroachDB Enterprise, which includes advanced features and optimizations related to fault tolerance, scaling and information protection.
The free CockroachDB Core edition is now being discontinued and is now available for deployment on your own. серверах Two new Enterprise editions are available that contain all the advanced features but have usage restrictions: the CockroachDB Enterprise Trial, which is only valid for 30 days, and the CockroachDB Enterprise Free, which has no time limit but is only available to individual developers, students, and businesses with revenue under $10 million per year.
This is CockroachDB's second move away from the open development model. Initially, this DBMS was distributed under the Apache 2.0 license, but in 2019 it was transferred to the Business Source License (BSL), which is not free due to discrimination against certain categories of users. The essence of the BSL license is that the code of enhanced functionality can be used free of charge for some time only if additional conditions are met, which require the purchase of a commercial license to circumvent. In the case of CockroachDB, an additional condition relates to a ban on the sale of commercial versions of CockroachDB, implemented in the form of cloud services.
CockroachDB DBMS is designed to create highly reliable, geographically distributed and horizontally scalable storage solutions that are highly resilient and not affected by disk, node, or other failures. data centersCockroachDB guarantees ACID transaction integrity, provides the ability to use SQL for data manipulation, allows for on-the-fly changes to the storage schema, supports indexes and foreign keys, and supports automatic replication and storage rebalancing.
Source: opennet.ru
