CockroachDB is presumably what they’re referring to in:

> For Postgres-compatible NewSQL, we would’ve had one of the largest single-cluster footprints for cloud-managed distributed Postgres. We didn’t want to bear the burden of being the first customer to hit certain scaling issues

I find their claim a bit hard to believe.

It is in inherent of a good engineer’s thinking to always consider the worst. Problem is sometimes, it can come across as a boast, or out of touch. It’s neither. It’s really the manifest anxiety of the whole thing shitting its pants and falling over.

At some point failures start getting measured in millions of dollars per minute.

It's smart to be cautious.

"Why not distributed databases like CockroachDB?"

CockroachDB you have two options both equally horrible. Pay for a hosted solution or run your own. I would pick hosting my own, but that would be some work.

this seems like a non response. this is always the case regardless of the database you choose.

Yeah, with https://ydb.tech it would have been much smoother too.

A disclosure that you are part of the YDB team would have been appropriate: https://github.com/orgs/ydb-platform/people

Your comment is pretty unhelpful either way though.

Nice spam/sales link