The Linux Foundation Non -Profit Organization has welcomed the documentDB service, based on PostgreSQL, to boost innovation in database management systems (NOSQL) open, a project that has been launched under the MIT license.
DocumentDB is an open source document database system that is based on PostgreSql, an initiative with which Microsoft seeks to offer developers a complete, open and interoperable solution and that It was launched earlier this year through a couple of extensions.
This project is compatible with MongodB open controllers and open source tools, so that it facilitates its use in new and existing apps and, so far from 2025, «it has achieved a growing participation of the developer community,» according to the technological company in a recently statement.
With this format, therefore, Microsoft seeks to place the foundations of a standard of open source databases «regardless of the provider and a priority for the developer, about PostgreSQL and it is something that expects to maintain the Linux Foundation, which has assumed its address and will be responsible for managing it independently.
As he points out Techradarthe decision to incorporate DocumentB to the Linux Foundation has attracted the support of other suppliers. Among them, Amazon Web Services, who has indicated that he has joined this open source project for three reasons. First, for its compatibility with the Mongodg API, which is one of the most popular, as well as because it promotes innovation.
«We hope that the community improves the performance, functions and experience of the developer,» said AWS product management manager, Rasheed Gupta, in a statement, where he has also said that he has joined this format because he is based on PostgreSql, which «has become The relational database preferred by many business developers and startups «.
For his part, Adam Abravaya, the director of Amazon Documentb, another private documentary database designed to be partially compatible with Mongodb, but exclusive to AWS; He has expressed interest in this new collaboration.
«AWS is excited to contribute to the DocumentDB open source project, now administered by the Linux Foundation,» he said, in the same line as commented by Sailesh Krishnamurthy, Vice President of Google Cloud Engineering.
This, specifically, has said that «it is fantastic to see that the DocumentB project joins the Linux Foundation to ensure that customers and the community have at their disposal an openly governed open source option.»
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From The New Stack They point out that, now, the Linux Foundation and the project members (among which are Cockroach Labs, Google and Snowflake) are prioritized to advance this project under their new Technical Management Committee to become a true open source replacement for Mongodb.
The truth is that this alignment among the main suppliers of the cloud to surprise a good part of the technology and developer industry, because among them the disputes due to database use licenses are common.
In addition, their objective disturbs the expectations of experts, who remember that the neutrality of cloud service providers has often been more imposed than real, because a project backed by this type of company It can be easily molded by their priorities.
This means that taxpayers to the open source with less weight, or independent developers, can be harmed by the decisions made by these others.
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