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Minor correction, both of them are source available, but not open source

Cockroach DB license - https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/blob/2c4e2c6/LICENS...

Mongo license - https://github.com/mongodb/mongo/blob/39e4b70/LICENSE-Commun...




Cockroach is eventually open source which I rather appreciate. Any code that is 3 years old goes Apache if I recall it correctly.


That only applies to the core. The "enterprise" features are proprietary until the copyright expires.

IIRC, backup was enterprise but is now part of the core. However, restore is still enterprise.




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