Tag: spanner

AWS Aurora Xanadu？

在「Why PostgreSQL High Availability Matters and How to Achieve It (yugabyte.com)」裡面看到 AWS 也在研發類似 GCP 提供的 Spanner 的服務，計畫名稱叫做 Aurora Xanadu：「36328981」。

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Google has Spanner. AWS is working on something similar (project Aurora Xanadu). And both have YugabyteDB in their marketplace. Those are Distributed SQL (Global ACID), not Citus. For DataWarehouse which doesn't need ACID, there are other services.

也先把這個連結備份起來，看看後面是不是直接拿這個名字來用？

CockroachDB 1.0

CockroachDB 推出 1.0 版：「CockroachDB 1.0 is Production-Ready」。CockroachDB 是希望在分散式環境裡打造出有 ACID 特性的服務，這點類似於 Google 的 Spanner 架構。

整個系統主要是用 Go 寫成，支援 PostgreSQL 協定，這讓許多現成的應用可以接上去：

Use existing PostgreSQL client drivers or supported ORMs.

而另外一邊有支援 MySQL 協定的 TiDB (剛好也是用 Go 寫的)，整個 NewSQL 領域東西愈來愈多了...

Google 的 Cloud Spanner

Google 把 Cloud Spanner 這個服務拿出來賣了：「Introducing Cloud Spanner: a global database service for mission-critical applications」，以及說明的「Inside Cloud Spanner and the CAP Theorem」。

Cloud Spanner 的規劃上是希望有 RDBMS 的能力 (像是 ACID 特性)，又有強大的擴充能力 (scalability) 與可用性 (availability)：

Today, we’re excited to announce the public beta for Cloud Spanner, a globally distributed relational database service that lets customers have their cake and eat it too: ACID transactions and SQL semantics, without giving up horizontal scaling and high availability.

在說明裡有提到 Cloud Spanner 是做到 CAP theorem 裡面的 CP：

The purist answer is “no” because partitions can happen and in fact have happened at Google, and during some partitions, Spanner chooses C and forfeits A. It is technically a CP system.

然後把 A 拉高到使用者不會在意 downtime 的程度：

However, no system provides 100% availability, so the pragmatic question is whether or not Spanner delivers availability that is so high that most users don't worry about its outages.

當然，比較讓人爭議的是 Twitter 上 Google Cloud 官方帳號的 tweet，直接講同時解決了 CAP 三個條件：

價錢不算便宜，不過對於想要找方案的人至少有選擇...