Nah, I'd rather be vague. ;-) The issue, I'm guessing, was that CockroachDB couldn't maintain the required latency bounds and availability past a certain point for the customer. Those are always where Aerospike wins (latency, availability, while scaling). milliseconds vs microseconds.

The limiting factor isn't how many operations the platform can handle, it's how many operations/transactions you can generate before the server will even break a sweat.

I'm just a lowly engineer, and while I'll say some stuff on a throwaway account, this is really the marketing department's purview.... Casual googling confirms it's public information that Schwab runs ... nearly everything on it, and it's a much smaller number of servers than you'd think.

Wow, Schwab runs an AGPL database?! Guessing they've a commercial license.

Doesn't it seem equally likely they haven't made any changes to the codebase? Or have simply contributed them to the project?

AGPL requires making 'full' source of a network service available to network users. Doubtful Schwab would do that.

If they haven't made any changes to the DB, that's just pointing them to the main website.

AGPL considers use of unmodified copies a "covered work". And it requires source of the calling code to also be disclosed.

(IANAL)

I read various interpretations of the AGPL and some people think it’s not the case.

MongoDB used to be AGPL and I believe most people didn’t interpret the license as everything calling the database must be AGPL, and then everything calling the thing calling the database too, that recursively until the entire world must be licensed under AGPL.

We'll see when AGPL gets tested in court. Until then I suspect legal departments will continue to treat AGPL, and even GPL (because of on prem), as a viral license which could require disclosing all their source.

No

No we won't see it tested in court? Or legal departments won't consider it a viral license?

The latter. Every large company on the planet uses Linux which is GPL.

GPL is widely used in SAAS because network users of SAAS aren't entitled to source. AGPL is different.

So you work at Aerospike?