YugaByte will make its database completely open source. Although vendors like Amazon could sell YugaByte's free software, the founders aren't worried.
YugaByte also announced that its database management software will be under a Polyform Project license — a new type of source-available license authored by a group ofEven though other companies have made defensive moves against Amazon to protect their business, the YugaByte co-founders explain why they're not worried about Amazon.The co-founders of the open-source startup YugaByte have been working in the database business since the early 1990s.
YugaByte, on the other hand, announced Tuesday that it will make its database open source under the Apache 2.0 license, which means the code is completely free for anyone to use, download, modify, or distribute. YugaByte's previously commercial features, which customers had to pay to use, are similarly available for free under this scheme.
Here's the rub, though: Previously, the management software that made all those premium features possible was run on code that was considered proprietary and closed. "I'm thrilled that developers are seeing the value of this," Meeker told Business Insider."It's something we put a lot of effort into based on market demand."Kannan Muthukkaruppan, CEO and co-founder of YugaByte, spent his time at Facebook, which was"essentially bursting at the seams in terms of infrastructure scaling." There, he met YugaByte co-founders Ranganathan and Mikhail Bautin, who also worked on the social network's database infrastructure.
"These are world class people who have built the most skilled data products in the world," Ravi Mhatre, founder and managing director of Lightspeed Venture Partners, told Business Insider."It's just exciting to see them take on the challenge which is to build a next generation, any time, anywhere, very scalable database. If they're successful, it's going to change the database industry.
The Polyform Project intends to standardize such source-available licenses, using plain language that's easy for any prospective customer or developer to understand. The idea is to make these licenses more palatable to would-be users, who may be more familiar with traditional open source licenses.
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