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Re:From Node to Ruby on Rails by sam0x17 on Friday December 17, 2021 @01:42PM (#29596414)
I'd love to, but when I've tried to set up Aurora, it seems impossible to do multi-regional with postgresql (not multi-zonal, but multi-regional). Would love to hear how to do this if anyone has got it working. Last time I tried was about 2 years ago.
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Re:From Node to Ruby on Rails by gregplaysguitar on Friday December 17, 2021 @04:16PM (#29598451)
Ah ok, interesting - I haven't tried Aurora, my company uses a mixture of RDS postgres and Dynamo. Cockroachdb and Yugabyte also seem like good options but a harder sell for us not being AWS native.

More generally though, all of these "newsql" offerings feel a little too good to be true for me, I can't see how you could really have all the relational integrity of postgres with the elastic scalability of a distributed DB without trading something off. Am I too cynical?

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