This recognizes the struggle behind the recent re-licensing of Redis Lab's addons for Redis, as well as the public tit-for-tat of Amazon vs Elastic resulting in the "Open" ElasticSearch distro.
Instead of developing their own value-added versions of redis/elastic/etc, Google will simply partner with the providers. This requires less of a commitment from Google while directly benefitting the companies that pay and support the creators and maintainers of these open source projects.
Instead of developing their own value-added versions of redis/elastic/etc, Google will simply partner with the providers. This requires less of a commitment from Google while directly benefitting the companies that pay and support the creators and maintainers of these open source projects.