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I'd like to know why AWS went with Aurora DB for their DocumentDB backend. Did the Mongo license change trigger a rush to build something Mongo compatible, but

I'd like to know why AWS went with Aurora DB for their DocumentDB backend. Did the Mongo license change trigger a rush to build something Mongo compatible, but not quite MongoDB?

oskar_dudycz 2y ago
You can check more in those sources: - https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/09/aws-gives-open-source-the-middle-finger/ https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/09/aws-gives-open-source-the-... - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18871483 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18871483 - https://www.enterprisedb.com/blog/documentdb-really-postgresql https://www.enterprisedb.com/blog/documentdb-really-postgres... TLDR: AWS didn't want to pay for licenses and rolled out their own thing.