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So how is this distributed Postgres still an ACID-compliant database? If you allow multiple nodes to query the same data this likely is just Trino/an OLAP-tool

by fock 1y ago

So how is this distributed Postgres still an ACID-compliant database? If you allow multiple nodes to query the same data this likely is just Trino/an OLAP-tool using Postgres syntax? Or did they rebuild Postgres and not upstream anything?

mohon 1y ago
They keep using the core Postgre while they touch the storage layer to works with S3. Can try ro read more here https://jack-vanlightly.com/analyses/2023/11/15/neon-serverless-postgresql-asds-chapter-3 https://jack-vanlightly.com/analyses/2023/11/15/neon-serverl...
- fock 1y ago
  Thank you, very nice read! (Though from some scanning it looks like it mostly helps reads)
  - mohon 1y ago
    You're welcome. I think for the write part, it's always back to the old classic consensus. In then end there always that distributed voting mechanism to decide the write order