Decoupling Storage and Compute

Nikolay and Michael discuss a listener question — about products that take Postgres and transform it to something that decouples compute from storage (RDS Aurora, GC AlloyDB, Neon etc.) and whether they see something like this landing upstream in the medium term.

Here are some links to some things they mentioned:

• Amazon Aurora https://aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora/
• Google Cloud AlloyDB for PostgreSQL https://cloud.google.com/alloydb
• Neon https://neon.tech/ 
• Google Cloud Spanner https://cloud.google.com/spanner
• Is Aurora PostgreSQL really faster and cheaper than RDS PostgreSQL? (blog post by Avinash Vallarapu from MigOps) https://www.migops.com/blog/is-aurora-postgresql-really-faster-and-cheaper-than-rds-postgresql-benchmarking/ 
• Deep dive on Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL compatibility (presentation by Grant McAllister) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQg8wqlxefo 
• Intro to Aurora PostgreSQL Query Plan Management https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/introduction-to-aurora-postgresql-query-plan-management/ 
• Michael Stonebraker Turing Award Lecture https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbGeKi6T6QI
• Interview with Stas Kelvich from Neon on Postgres TV https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PUKNznq_eM 
• Interview with Ben Vandiver from Google Cloud Spanner on Postgres TV https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BW-Uexhv-bk 
• Timescale Cloud bottomless storage feature (data tiering to Amazon S3) https://www.timescale.com/blog/expanding-the-boundaries-of-postgresql-announcing-a-bottomless-consumption-based-object-storage-layer-built-on-amazon-s3/ 
• Testing Database Changes the Right Way (Heap Analytics article) https://www.heap.io/blog/testing-database-changes-right-way  

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