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I would add to this by saying that AWS Aurora "looks" the most similar to Spanner by being a transparent scale-out relational database with strongly-consistent

I would add to this by saying that AWS Aurora "looks" the most similar to Spanner by being a transparent scale-out relational database with strongly-consistent transactionality, but it doesn't seem to be designed for geo-replication.

nishantvyas 9y ago
Agree. AWS aurora is closest to spanner and would work for 95% of use-cases... master-master, cross-colo or geo-replication is great problem for less than 2% of companies...
- cosmie 9y ago
  Multi-master Aurora is actually in Preview right now[1]. Only for the MySQL variant of Aurora though, not the Postgres variant. [1] https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/11/sign-up-for-the-preview-of-amazon-aurora-multi-master/ https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/11/sign-up-f...
rpedela 9y ago
AWS Aurora supports cross region read replicas. Is geo-replication something different?
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