It’s already been mentioned that “Queryable Encryption was designed by MongoDB’s Advanced Cryptography Research Group, headed by Seny Kamara and Tarik Moataz" - are you calling bullshit on their work? What are your qualifications?
> Closed, source-available, software vendors are the anti-thesis of that. They want others to participate and contribute,
Whatever makes you claim they want others to contribute? They have a large engineering team, it probably wastes more of their time to review external “contributions” than add value.
> if I could modify the source code … But I can’t … legal.
You absolutely can. Where did you get the idea that you cannot?
Don’t you get a replica set for that $? That's three of your laptops. And if any of them fail, a free replacement. And that FT sysadmin of yours is willing to work 24x7? Cool!
MongoDB only binds to localhost for at least the last four versions (4+ years). Someone would have had to install a really old version or intentionally configure it to listen to public IP.
I think you missed the point here - slavery over which the US fought a civil war was not in ancient times nor did it protect US from becoming enslaved.
Nope, just the same API, completely unrelated codebase.