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No one is saying that Aurora is built on MySQL, I'd personally like to know :) It's the protocol (drivers) compatibility what has been claimed so far. I'd agre

No one is saying that Aurora is built on MySQL, I'd personally like to know :) It's the protocol (drivers) compatibility what has been claimed so far. I'd agree with you from a technical perspective it would have been better to offer Postgres compatibility, rather than MySQL. But I believe the intent is to target both a bigger market (as of today) and challenge Oracle.

BenoitP 12y ago
> tables that I create in Amazon Aurora must use the InnoDB engine It hasn't been claimed, but the article is filled with MySQL comparisons and references. I would not be surprised if it was a MySQL fork.