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> the problem with the Enterprise edition is that it's quite expensive

Seems to me that it's still free for development, and small business use. If you're over $10M in revenue, with a business or product built on CockroachDB, they want a share of what they made possible. That seems totally reasonable to me.

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You'd be a fool to put all your eggs in this basket:

> Annual term. Can be renewed subject to meeting the then-current eligibility requirements

OK, use a different database then if you don't like the terms.

Like the original commenter, everyone at my company really likes all the folks at Cockroach Labs. It's been a pleasure working with them.

We're currently in discussion with them to see if we can resolve this licensing change to our satisfaction. If not, we'll do the obvious (use a different database) as you said.

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