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It is possible, if you pay for it. You can do Multi-AZ Clustered Instances in RDS, where you get the benefits of Multi-AZ failover with traffic sharing. If you
by sgarland 3y ago
It is possible, if you pay for it. You can do Multi-AZ Clustered Instances in RDS, where you get the benefits of Multi-AZ failover with traffic sharing.
If you can run your own infra – at least on an EC2 level – you can do things like Citus [0] for Postgres, which is about as close to "just add database nodes" as you'll get.
[0]: https://www.citusdata.com/ https://www.citusdata.com/
- api 3y agoVery clunky compared with things like CockroachDB. Ultimately using something like Postgres in 2024 is just an on-ramp for expensive managed cloud database services, which is probably why it's promoted so much.
- refset 3y ago> which is probably why it's promoted so much I think what you're actually observing is simply that Postgres is by far the most vendor-neutral DBMS (/API) available, and therefore the volume of conversation & marketing around it stacks up very disproportionately. In contrast, asides from MySQL all other DBMS options require getting invested in ~one company and relying entirely on the whims & fortunes of their commercial support organisation. A relevant article and comment thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31425872 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31425872