FerretDB project is very quiet

[2114L3]

the FerretDB project has been very quiet and maybe abandoned

The projects main website has been down since may with no actions
FerretDB/FerretDB#5650

No much movement on the project in months
hopefully just a world cruise, but potentially compatibility and security issues ahead.

[NotActuallyTerry]

It appears that they've been sued by MongoDB, which explains why there was a sudden halt. It may be worth updating the documentation to use pure DocumentDB instead?

[PureOxygen-Dev]

@NotActuallyTerry Is a migration possible from FerretDB to DocumentDB already by users, I believe FerretDB is just a MongoDB proxy so Komodo would need to be modified to use PQ and DocumentDB native?

[NotActuallyTerry]

Migration-wise, the worst case would be that you'd need to make a database dump, and import that into DocumentDB instead.

I've been using Komodo w/ DocumentDB for over a week now, and it's been flawless. I didn't need to make any modifications to Komodo for it to work. I don't know why the documentation doesn't make it clear that DocumentDB is a drop-in replacement for MongoDB, but the docker image has just worked out of the box for me.

[PureOxygen-Dev]

@mbecker20 considering the Linux Foundation has taken over the custodianship of DocumentDB and reading the documentation this morning on it I see the point been made here. FerretDB was about for a while but with Both MS and Amazon heavily utilising DocumentDB I guess its not going to suffer the same fate a FerretDB did anytime soon.

Could you comment on this topic and give your komodo maintainer advice on the viability of this approach.

[mbecker20]

I also am using documentdb now for a Komodo setup and haven't noticed any issues. The next version docs will include documentdb setup example.