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Euxodus is right. As long as you’re not building a product where the primary value of it is just delivering MongoDB as a service, you’re fine. There’s an FAQ that addresses that and more here https://www.mongodb.com/licensing/server-side-public-license...

I agree with you but this is an incredibly hard problem to solve. How are you going to get your friend to engage with videos that are in direct opposition to her world views? Recommendations are based on what she actually clicks on, how long she actually watches the videos, etc.

And from the business perspective, they're trying to reduce the likelihood that your friend abandons their platform and goes to another one that she feels is more "built for her".

Mongo addresses this with partitioning and you can distribute partitions which serve local client applications anywhere. The database as a service for Mongo supports 66 regions across AWS, Azure, and GCP so write latency (regardless of where the client application is) doesn't become an issue.

The $100B number comes from a satirical post: https://signalvnoise.com/posts/1941-press-release-37signals-....

The author clearly did not get the joke.

The commercial entities associated with the most popular open source technologies are taking measures to protect themselves from Amazon simply taking their software and turning it into a service, whether it's introducing proprietary components or new licensing. Wouldn't be surprised if we saw AWS do something similar for Redis, MongoDB, Kafka, etc.

The article mentions that MongoDB already has its own hosted database service, Atlas.

MongoDB has a fully managed service called MongoDB Atlas that runs on AWS (and Azure, GCP).

> It's just that there's no intrinsic reason that the same company that gives away labour as OSS should also make the best complements to that OSS.

AWS's version will likely always lag on features, whether it's their Elasticsearch service or this new DocumentDB thing. So to continue the music industry analogy from the original article, sure Taylor Swift may or may not be able run the most reliable streaming service but she'll still get business if Spotify/Pandora only has covers of her songs.

You're right they're not profitable — and neither is MongoDB — but the point is that AWS launched an Elasticsearch service 3 years prior to Elastic having a very successful IPO supported by stellar metrics (also found in the SEC filing you linked). So the statements made at the beginning of this thread are probably a bit premature.

Have you heard of Amazon Elasticsearch Service, launched in 2015? Elastic is doing fine.

Atlas has a free tier with about the same storage limit.

Beta of MongoDB Charts was announced at the annual conference. It lets you build visualizations on MongoDB data w/o moving data around / ETL. Or if you want to use your existing BI tools, use the BI Connector and the ODBC driver.

Is the report comparing 9 active couchbase nodes v 3 active mongodb nodes? Am I missing something here?

But what if he just hired that 6th person? Think of all the months he was paying $10!

I like that the project you decided to use in your mockup on your homepage is "Duke Nukem Forever - release once it is perfect and not one second earlier".