> And on top of that, in the realm of database engineering, Amazon is absolutely a newcomer, they've got another good 15 years before they can even start to be

> And on top of that, in the realm of database engineering, Amazon is absolutely a newcomer, they've got another good 15 years before they can even start to be in contention for "reliable and trustworthy database vendor" They did hire a bunch of experienced engineers. I'd rather have them actually contribute to postgres (which amazon pretty much doesn't do, some bug reports aside). > Presumably, upstreams like MariaDB and PostgreSQL have forgone similar enhancements for a better reason than "only Amazon employees are smart enough to figure it out". Some of them are harder to do if you don't have as much control over the environment as amazon does...