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Re:Amazon Aurora Limitless Database by jitl on Tuesday November 28, 2023 @12:10PM (#38448073)
What are you referring to? I didn’t see anything described that’s exclusive to Spanner. CockroachDB is a Postgres-compatible-ish distributed DB that does multi shard transactions. YugabyteDB is another that comes to mind. CitusDB is a Postgres extension that manages multi shard tables. Or are you referring to automatic scale-out?
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Re:Amazon Aurora Limitless Database by sidcool on Tuesday November 28, 2023 @09:26PM (#38454687)
The scale of Spanner is unparalleled. They had to use atomic clocks to manage time in a distributed set up.
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Re:Amazon Aurora Limitless Database by jitl on Thursday November 30, 2023 @01:02PM (#38476710)
Aurora uses Amazon's equivalent of TrueTime using a more pragmatic high-quality GPS time solution
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