Governing alone - I don't that thats a good reason. There are plenty of Apache projects that are effectively governed by a private entity (Cassandra, Samza, Kaf

Governing alone - I don't that thats a good reason. There are plenty of Apache projects that are effectively governed by a private entity (Cassandra, Samza, Kafka, and these are all in the "big data" space), that would most likely be as useful as Elasticsearch if their supporting companies disappeared overnight.