I spent the last 4 years at SkySQL/MariaDB working on versions of
MySQL that could be “suitable for the cloud”. I strongly
believed that the world needed a version of MySQL that could work
in the cloud even better than its comparable version on bare
metal. Users and administrators wanted to benefit from the use of
cloud infrastructures and at the same time they wanted to achieve
the same performance and overall stability of their installations
on bare metal. Unfortunately, ACID-compliant databases in the
cloud suffer from the issues that any centrally controlled and
strictly persistent system can get when hosted on highly
distributed and natively stateless infrastructures.
In this post I am not going to talk about the improvements needed
for MySQL in the cloud - I will tackle this topic in
a future post. Today I'd like to focus on the business side
of RDS and Aurora.
In the last 4 years I had endless discussions over …
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