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Re:OpenSearch: AWS fork of Elasticsearch and Kibana by shankspeaks on Monday April 12, 2021 @02:39PM (#26783314)
Imagine if they went after Mongo next?

Atlas is a virtual monopoly for Mongo solely due to SSPL, and it has created a ridiculously overpriced ecosystem for hosted and managed services, and tooling around it.

Parking the technical merits to one side, considering the sheer number of devs and early-stage products that are built on Mongo, I'd love for someone to go after them next.

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Re:OpenSearch: AWS fork of Elasticsearch and Kibana by calmoo on Monday April 12, 2021 @02:50PM (#26783472)
Amazon already have DocumentDB which clones the Mongo API. I don't think its forked though, they just use a barely mongo compatible wrapper around their own db engine.
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Re:OpenSearch: AWS fork of Elasticsearch and Kibana by vio2 on Monday April 12, 2021 @03:17PM (#26783816)
It's not nearly as compatible as you might think. Interestingly enough, MongoDB's CTO managed RDS at AWS.
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Re:OpenSearch: AWS fork of Elasticsearch and Kibana by bgorman on Monday April 12, 2021 @02:51PM (#26783483)
This already exists

https://aws.amazon.com/documentdb/

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Re:OpenSearch: AWS fork of Elasticsearch and Kibana by shankspeaks on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @06:43AM (#26790462)
True, but it's not quite the same as what they've done with OpenSearch/Elastic. Also, from what I've read, despite claims, the compatibility isn't complete, esp with stuff like aggregations.

There are a few use-cases where you'd want the ability to have a managed/hosted vanilla Mongo setup vs an emulated experience.

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Re:OpenSearch: AWS fork of Elasticsearch and Kibana by Graphguy on Monday April 12, 2021 @03:11PM (#26783746)
Kinda blocked on the compatibility front after the 4.0 API though, eh?
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Re:OpenSearch: AWS fork of Elasticsearch and Kibana by bmcahren on Monday April 12, 2021 @03:52PM (#26784296)
Not if the recent Oracle vs Google supreme court ruling is to be acknowledged.

DocumentDB is to MongoDB 4.0+ as Dalvik runtime was to JVM.

Here is their 4.0 compatibility update: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/documentdb/latest/developerguide...

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Re:OpenSearch: AWS fork of Elasticsearch and Kibana by Graphguy on Monday April 12, 2021 @04:44PM (#26784922)
Time will tell...MongoDB 4.2 APIs are under SSPL

"Amazon DocumentDB implements the Apache 2.0 open source MongoDB 3.6 and 4.0 APIs by emulating the responses that a MongoDB client expects from a MongoDB server, allowing you to use your existing MongoDB drivers and tools with Amazon DocumentDB."

https://aws.amazon.com/documentdb/

IANAL

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