Surprised there wasn't any mentioned of [1] in the paper's citations. This notion of articulating the internal sub-systems of a DB as first class elements of a

Surprised there wasn't any mentioned of [1] in the paper's citations. This notion of articulating the internal sub-systems of a DB as first class elements of a distributed realization has been emerging (from various quarters) for the past few years. I would also include Apache Pulsar in this category. Aurora itself seems very interesting from an architectural point of view and definitely worth studying. [1]: https://www.confluent.io/blog/turning-the-database-inside-out-with-apache-samza/ https://www.confluent.io/blog/turning-the-database-inside-ou...