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		kbd on Jan 28, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Quitting Dgraph Labs Building a database is such a hard undertaking. I have to give a shoutout to RethinkDB, which also had cool tech and also failed commercially. And then if you have success as open core, AWS will just fork and offer a hosted version of your software. Good luck continuing Dgraph as open source.

maerF0x0 on Jan 28, 2022 [–]

Spencer Kimball talks about this wrt CockroachDB in this changelog (founderstalk.fm?) podcast

https://changelog.com/podcast/448

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