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I am now aware of 4 major silicon valley companies building an internal distributed OLTP DBMS. Each story is almost the same:
1. They want a version of Spanner w/o TrueTime.
2. They evaluated @CockroachDB + TiDB + @Comdb2 + @YugaByte + @FoundationDB but decided to build their own
Two of then asked for my feedback on their system design. Here is the scariest quote (paraphrasing) I've seen so far from one of them: "We are not database experts… And the system architecture is still evolving"
Transactions are hard. Distributed transactions are harder. Distributed transactions over the WAN are final boss hardness. I'm all for new DBMSs but people should tread carefully.

See @daniel_abadi's blog article: dbmsmusings.blogspot.com/2018/09/newsql…
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