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What is the effective difference to you? Technically all compute can enter hibernation by dumping RAM (or just using virtualized memory backed only by SSDs). C

• anilgulecha 4y ago
  The effective difference is commoditization of the paradigm - there's confidence in a commodity technology that a proprietary cannot give (standardized use and wide support and community, multiple providers, self-hosting). Eg: of innovation -> commodity. EC2 was innovative, but is today common-place. S3 was the same. DBs that scale-to-zero have not reached that state yet. Thanks for the link on cockroachdb - it sounds promising. I wonder what's the minimum self-deployable unit of cockroachdb - will google around a bit.
  • manigandham 4y ago
    > "minimum self-deployable unit of cockroachdb" If you host it yourself, or use their dedicated enterprise clusters then you still have instances which are individual (virtual) servers. The serverless model has no instances exposed to you and instead is a multitenant architecture that uses a pool of shared compute nodes with a routing layer that intercepts and introspects your connection to load up your specific database context for query processing.
  • ignoramous 4y ago
    I think it is more "market leadership" than commoditization that's working in favour of the MySQL-Postgres duopoly.