[fock]

So how is this distributed Postgres still an ACID-compliant database? If you allow multiple nodes to query the same data this likely is just Trino/an OLAP-tool using Postgres syntax? Or did they rebuild Postgres and not upstream anything?

[mohon]

They keep using the core Postgre while they touch the storage layer to works with S3. Can try ro read more here https://jack-vanlightly.com/analyses/2023/11/15/neon-serverl...

[fock]

Thank you, very nice read! (Though from some scanning it looks like it mostly helps reads)

[mohon]

You're welcome. I think for the write part, it's always back to the old classic consensus. In then end there always that distributed voting mechanism to decide the write order