Some of the most popular database and database related projects & products have been or are AGPL. MongoDB became massively successful as AGPL from the start. Grafana has been AGPL for 3+ years.
The AGPL is absolutely viable in commercial contexts. There are a handful of companies that have hangups about it, but the industry overall has long since realized that it is almost identical to the GPL for most practical purposes.
Mi d that those companies do dual licensing. All companies which worry about AGPL got to buy the commercial license to be on the safe side. While only the original vendor is able to do that, creating an imbalance between what they can do and an external contributor can do. (While external contributions are of limited interest for vendors who want to control a roadmap etc. and treat open source as marketing vehicle anyways)
