There's a chicken and the egg problem with this fear and approach to OSS. More permissive licenses (Apache, BSD) encourage adoption since it's hard to go afoul with them. At the same time, they allow someone like AWS to sell the DB as a hosted service.
People are trying to have their cake and eat it too with open-source DBs (and it's mostly DBs). Historically, OSS was either for anyone for anything, or it was a viral license trying to build a GNU ecosystem. The DBs playing licensing games have been using OSS as a growth hack, they doing a bait-and-switch once they're popular.
At least starting with the AGPL up-front is honest, but considering the client-server nature of this DB, it makes it a non-starter for me.
People are trying to have their cake and eat it too with open-source DBs (and it's mostly DBs). Historically, OSS was either for anyone for anything, or it was a viral license trying to build a GNU ecosystem. The DBs playing licensing games have been using OSS as a growth hack, they doing a bait-and-switch once they're popular.
At least starting with the AGPL up-front is honest, but considering the client-server nature of this DB, it makes it a non-starter for me.