[kwlug-disc] RethinkDB vs MongoDB (was: Permissive vs copyleft licenses)

[Chris Frey]

On Tue, Dec 08, 2020 at 09:54:16PM -0500, Jason Eckert wrote:
> https://terminusdb.com/blog/2020/12/08/we-love-gplv3-but-are-switching-license-to-apache-2-0-terminusdb/

That page linked me to this:

	http://www.defmacro.org/2017/01/18/why-rethinkdb-failed.html

which said:

	To be honest, it hurt. It hurt a lot. It was unfathomable to us
	why people would choose a system [MongoDB] that barely does the
	thing it’s supposed to do (store data), has a big kernel lock,
	throws away errors at random, implements single node features
	that stop working when you shard, has a barely working sharding
	system despite it being one of the core features of the product,
	provides essentially no correctness guarantees, and exposes a
	hodge-podge of interfaces that have no discernible consistency
	or unity of vision.

Oh man, that made me laugh.  Good points.  The market is a poor forge
for good software sometimes.

- Chris