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CouchDB can’t be bought by Oracle or anyone, since it is run as an independent Open Source project and under an organisation (the Apache Software Foundation) th

by janl 13y ago

CouchDB can’t be bought by Oracle or anyone, since it is run as an independent Open Source project and under an organisation (the Apache Software Foundation) that allows and supports commercial entities contributing, but single vendors can never control the project in a way that a single vendor product could. You are still vulnerable to CouchDB as a project folding, but since it is all Open Source and open discussions, that one is easy to find early on. And finally, you could just use one of the other implementations of the CouchDB API available :)

emsy 13y ago
Of course the "Oracle buys CouchDB" scenario wasn't meant serious :). But the point still stands. There may be much more trivial cases which can drive an user to switch from CouchDB and CouchDB derivatives to another DB. E.g. the user figured that a relational DB suits his use case better after all.