[taldo]

Sooo they're finally launching a Spanner contender?

I'm itching to read more details into what this actually is under the marketing blab.

[MapleWalnut]

Spanner provides serializability. It seems like DSQL only guarantees "repeatable read".

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/aurora-dsql/latest/userguide/wor...

[timmg]

> Sooo they're finally launching a Spanner contender?

It may be even better in one important way: (if I understand correctly) for Spanner, you have to provision servers -- and keep them running. So GCP version of Spanner really makes no sense for anything that isn't huge.

This sounds more like "Spanner as a Service" -- which is something I've always wanted (for my hobby projects, no less :)

Unless I misundertood, anyway.

[steepben]

There's a blog on the technical details here: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/introducing-amazon-aur...

[hobs]

The most interesting page is always quotas and limits: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/aurora-dsql/latest/userguide/CHA...

Seeing the No to configurable for some of the settings is the most telling hard limits that we can see up front.

Some Very Noteable ones are: Maximum size of all data modified within a write transaction: 10 MiB Maximum transaction time: 5 minutes

[bobnamob]

The 10MiB transaction size limit smells a lot like FoundationDBs transaction size limit

[bcap]

10MiB is an appealing number for humans. Can easily appear across different designs.