FYI: Alibaba is also developing its own Aurora like DB. https://www.yicaiglobal.com/news/alibaba%E2%80%99s-new-cloud-database-can-back-100-terabytes-data-just-

FYI: Alibaba is also developing its own Aurora like DB. https://www.yicaiglobal.com/news/alibaba%E2%80%99s-new-cloud-database-can-back-100-terabytes-data-just-one-minute https://www.yicaiglobal.com/news/alibaba%E2%80%99s-new-cloud... A more detailed intro (in Chinese) can be found at http://www.infoq.com/cn/news/2017/08/ali-polardb http://www.infoq.com/cn/news/2017/08/ali-polardb. Alibaba has developed another DB called OceanBase (open source). https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12925679 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12925679