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Elastic has the same problem that MongoDB has with Amazon: Amazon is commoditizing their product on a massive scale.

"Smart companies try to commoditize their products’ complements."

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/06/12/strategy-letter-v/

Not sure what other alternatives are there besides changing licensing.

Given that aws just built DocumentDB, I am not sure if the licensing changing anything. I would even say that this choice actually hurts MongoDB because I am less likely to choose it since they have less practical hosting solutions.

If Oracle wins against Google, presumably DocumentDB would be infringing in the same manner, as DocumentDB also is a drop-in replacement adhering to the same API.

I still didn't decide if it would be a good a or bad thing actually.

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