peterfarkas

Thanks for posting and glad you liked the project (FerretDB maintainer here).

Just curious: what are your specific reasons for not liking the company behind MongoDB?

Around the world means a couple random countries in this case. Also it includes the sales tax seemingly everywhere, except the US.

Anyone can provide Postgres, MySQL or other open source databases as a service.

For this reason, there are many providers to choose from, and there is a healthy amount of innovation and competition in the space. Prices are set by market and demand, as it should be.

And then there is MongoDB where only a handful of providers could negotiate a license, and the price is set by MongoDB Inc.

In my opinion this is by no means "fine" from a user perspective as we are talking about database software.

If anyone did freeriding, it is MongoDB Inc. who chose to freeride on the open source community for marketing purposes, before switching to SSPL.

Thanks for the very relevant plug, we are going to test with Marmot.

Maintainer here. We will try in the next few days, and I will let you know. I have a lot of Unifi stuff myself.

It's a little more complicated than than just having to refrain from selling MongoDB services. There is a good page which summarizes the problem with SSPL. [1] SSPL is crafted in a way that it very hard to tell whether you comply with the license or not, especially if you run it as part of a cloud hosted solution.

[1]: www.ssplisbad.com

Thank you, we will take a look!

Yes this is one of the reasons we started FerretDB. Atlas is very easy to use, but it is nearly impossible to move away from later on, as there is no alternative (unless you are ready to rewrite your app). We think that most of its killer features, like easy sharding, can be done with Postgres and/or SQLite.

Maintainer here. That's a very good idea! Let us know if you ever have some time to work with us on this.

Maintainer here, thanks for posting!

Latest is 1.3.0, since 1.1.0 we added experimental support for SQLite, among other things.

In the coming versions FerretDB will enable you to run MongoDB workloads using FerretDB+SQLite.

The key to success here seems to be a standardized OSS app store. Somehow.

On the other hand, I feel like the Raspberry is no longer a good platform to build on. It is impossible to buy, and when you can, it is going for many times over any reasonable price.

Maintainer here, thanks for submitting. Funny how the first comment, even on under this article, is always the "Is it Webscale?" video.