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		aussieguy1234 on July 8, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Mongo but on Postgres and with strong consistency ... I'd like to know why AWS went with Aurora DB for their DocumentDB backend. Did the Mongo license change trigger a rush to build something Mongo compatible, but not quite MongoDB?

oskar_dudycz on July 8, 2024 [–]

You can check more in those sources: - https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/09/aws-gives-open-source-the-... - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18871483 - https://www.enterprisedb.com/blog/documentdb-really-postgres...

TLDR: AWS didn't want to pay for licenses and rolled out their own thing.

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