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Re:Amazon DocumentDB, with MongoDB compatibility by mrep on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @11:57PM (#18871640)
> I doubt that they actually built this on top of Postgres.

Maybe not (but OP makes a lot of good points for why it is), but it is still based on the aurora limits, 64TB of size, 15 low latency read replicas in minutes, and presumably 1 write capacity which makes it a laughable nosql system since it cannot scale past 1 servers write capacity.

Re:Amazon DocumentDB, with MongoDB compatibility by sorenbs on Thursday January 10, 2019 @03:59AM (#18872506)
Are you aware that they are working on multi-master for Aurora? https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/11/sign-up-f...