Let us shift gears a bit and look at some nontechnical parameters to compare the databases.
License plays a critical role in taking a final business decision on choosing a database. While commercial license—with or without source code—had been the norm especially in the enterprise application where the main drivers were vendor support and protection of intellectual property, things have started to change in recent times.
Because of strong vendor and community support, companies have started to adopt open source libraries and applications. Given comparable metrics on other parameters, the final decision boils down to the license.
Distributable applications prefer Apache, BSD, MIT, X11, and other compatible licenses while in-the-cloud applications also use GPL-licensed code. AGPL is a license to fret unless there is dual licensing available for commercial license to protect intellectual properties.
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