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by ultra-jeremyx 891 days ago
This sounds a lot like AWS Aurora, which (I'm simplifying here) is a database interface on top of a distributed file store, (S3).
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jahewson 891 days ago
I assume you mean AWS Athena - but no this is quite different from FoundationDB. Athena separates compute from storage (it’s Presto https://prestodb.io/ under the hood). Think of it as an on-demand SQL compute cluster. FoundationDB is a traditional combined storage/compute cluster. The Record Layer does provide some ability to scale-out the higher-level aspects of querying but it’s just a client library, not a separate compute service.
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gwright 891 days ago
This is the first time I've seen it suggested that Aurora is implemented on top of S3.

This overview doesn't mention S3: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/AuroraUserGuide...

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ultra-jeremyx 891 days ago
That's because I meant Athena! https://docs.aws.amazon.com/athena/latest/ug/what-is.html

Doh!

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mr_toad 891 days ago
Athena is a query engine, not a data store. It’s actually built from Presto (or maybe it’s Trino now, I’m not sure).
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