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Re:Amazon Aurora Now Available by boulos on Tuesday July 28, 2015 @02:04AM (#9959768)
It certainly seems to be a MySQL 5.6 fork (or at least backend ala InnoDB or similar), as the docs explicitly call out MySQL 5.6 compatibility. I feel like I wouldn't say "simply" though; that makes it seem like some guys at Amazon checked out the MySQL source, deleted some stuff and then released this.
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Re:Amazon Aurora Now Available by frankchn on Tuesday July 28, 2015 @03:23AM (#9959993)
Unlikely, because they already have a hosted MySQL 5.6 product in RDS. If anything, this is a MySQL 5.6 frontend + query processing engine with a new storage layer.
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Re:Amazon Aurora Now Available by istvan__ on Tuesday July 28, 2015 @02:35AM (#9959847)
It would have been extremely difficult because MySQL community edition is GPL and Amazon does not allow GPL code to be modified by the internal teams as far as I know. They might have changed their policy though...
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