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Re:PolarDB, yet another open source database system based on... by arthurcolle on Sunday May 30, 2021 @06:16AM (#27332110)
I think Citus is one option. Or possibly TimescaleDB
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Re:PolarDB, yet another open source database system based on... by manigandham on Sunday May 30, 2021 @09:33AM (#27333121)
Those are meant for a single location, not cross-region distribution.
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Re:PolarDB, yet another open source database system based on... by arthurcolle on Monday May 31, 2021 @10:10PM (#27350072)
I don't think that's right.

Citus has a post from 2017 talking about allowing for horizontal scaling of a postgres instance. [0]

Same thing with Timescale. [1]

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[0] https://citusdata.com/blog/2017/02/16/citus61-released/

[1] https://blog.timescale.com/blog/timescaledb-2-0-a-multi-node...

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