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Link bait title, It's a dual license product. That price is only if you want to buy a commercial license distribute it with proprietary software to third part

Link bait title, It's a dual license product. That price is only if you want to buy a commercial license distribute it with proprietary software to third parties. Their open source license allows you to use it on your server or in open source projects under a GPLish license. BDB doesn't get near enough love as far as I'm concerned. It's crazy fast, and it's been around for two decades and it can scale to 256 Terabytes. ref: http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/berkeley-db/htdocs/licensing.html http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/berkeley-... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_DB http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_DB

aristus 16y ago
IIRC, Yahoo did not use the newer versions of BDB because even running it on their own servers came with a huge (multimillion-dollar) license cost. They stayed with some eldritch version for this reason. Perhaps the new Oracle regime is less onerous. The page you link to is carefully worded: "The following are not redistribution: Building an application for use internal to your organization, deployed and managed on your company servers." This does not appear to include using BDB on your public-facing web application.