If they really want to actually make money with a database, they would implement binary compatibility with Oracle's SQL dialect, Oracle stored procedure language, and its OCI binary protocol for programming from C.
There are plenty of big customers locked into Oracle. If you gave them a backwards compatible but scalable database for half the price, they would happily cut their costs in half, and make cockroachlabs very rich.
There are plenty of big customers locked into Oracle. If you gave them a backwards compatible but scalable database for half the price, they would happily cut their costs in half, and make cockroachlabs very rich.
And then Oracle would offer to buy your company.