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It looks like Azure has now integrated Citus into it's Postgres offering, but Im curious why AWS hasn't integrated either Vitess or Citus at all? It seems like
by vp8989 6y ago
It looks like Azure has now integrated Citus into it's Postgres offering, but Im curious why AWS hasn't integrated either Vitess or Citus at all?
It seems like a well executed combination of Vitess/Citus + read replicas pointing to decoupled page storage would result in a fully featured non-proprietary database that scales all the way down to your laptop and all the way up to the heaviest OLTP use cases. If that existed, only truly masochistic people would continue using things like DynamoDB.
- marcinzm 6y ago>If that existed, only truly masochistic people would continue using things like DynamoDB. Which is probably why AWS doesn't support it, they make less money and have less lock in on their clients.
- Scarbutt 6y agoThey want you to use Aurora instead.
- carlineng 6y agoCitus was acquired by MSFT in 2019, hence the integration. Vitess is primarily a MySQL-based solution, and I imagine that AWS would rather have its customers on Postgres-flavored DBs, given that MySQL is currently owned by Oracle.
- vp8989 6y agoThe Citus extension is still open-source though, right? Although I think it was a solid strategic move by MSFT to acquihire the Citus devs (probably all these people were given substantial golden handcuffs) to block AWS from hiring experts to integrate this extension into their PG offering.