When his company that backed the open source NoSQL RethinkDB project failed commercially last October, co-founder Slava Akhmechet said: “We’re brainstorming together how to transition RethinkDB to a self-sustaining open source project … if there is a way for RethinkDB to live on, we’ll find it!”
They found it.
Today the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced it had purchased RethinkDB’s source code and donated it to CNCF’s parent organization, The Linux Foundation, where it will live on under an Apache license.