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Re:Microsoft acquires Citus Data (YC S11) by spullara on Thursday January 24, 2019 @01:14PM (#18991262)
Aurora databases and DocumentDB share the same underlying reliable single-writer, many-reader block device for storage. That is all the magic. Not sure where you got the idea that DocumentDB has Postgres underneath it.
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Re:Microsoft acquires Citus Data (YC S11) by cdbattags on Thursday January 24, 2019 @01:56PM (#18991736)
See this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18869755

The HN community did a little bit of reverse engineering.

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Re:Microsoft acquires Citus Data (YC S11) by spullara on Thursday January 24, 2019 @04:59PM (#18993456)
I think they are wrong and Amazon is just sharing code with their Postgres layer.
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Re:Microsoft acquires Citus Data (YC S11) by jen20 on Thursday January 24, 2019 @08:31PM (#18994748)
That was more guessing than reverse engineering, no?
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