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For that to work, the swarm has to actually follow the spec, which is what much of this post is about. We gave the swarm 835 pages of prose and it came back with a database. What was scarce in this experiment, and what we expect to be scarce in software engineering going forward, is the right description of intent. - xata - https://xata.io/blog/xatastor-zfs-nvme-of-for-millions-of-postgres-databases
- neon - which has a more sophisticated architecture that builds abstractions at the Postgres layer
But separating compute and storage sucks and the performance you get out of EBS and friends is mediocre. The elasticity is nice, but if you have High Availability and can move instances around, you can still expand your cluster relatively easily, just not easily in an emergency scenario.