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Overview of Amazon Aurora DSQL
- Amazon Aurora DSQL is a scalable, serverless, PostgreSQL-compatible relational SQL database optimized for transactional workloads.
- Key features of Aurora DSQL:
- Scalable up and down to handle a wide range of application sizes.
- Serverless with no infrastructure management required.
- Active-active and multi-region support for high availability and low latency.
- PostgreSQL-compatible with the ability to use existing PostgreSQL tooling and code.
Transactional Architecture
Writes and Concurrency Control
- Writes are first appended to a highly scalable and durable transaction log service.
- The Adjudicator service is responsible for detecting conflicts between concurrent transactions and ensuring isolation.
- The storage layer indexes the transaction log for efficient querying, but is not responsible for durability or concurrency control.
Reads and Scaling SQL Execution
- Reads leverage multi-version concurrency control (MVCC) to provide consistent snapshots of the database without coordination between storage nodes.
- The query processing layer is scaled out using secure Firecracker micro-VMs, allowing for parallelism and isolation between query executions.
- Push-down capabilities allow the storage layer to efficiently execute certain operations, reducing round-trips to the query layer.
Cross-Region Scalability and Availability
- Transactions are committed atomically across multiple regions using a distributed commit protocol.
- Read-only transactions can commit locally without cross-region coordination.
- The system is designed for fast failover in the event of a regional outage, with the majority region remaining available and consistent.
Design Principles and Correctness
- The system is primarily implemented in Rust for performance and memory safety.
- Extensive use of deterministic simulation testing, fuzzing, and formal methods to ensure correctness of the distributed protocols and implementation.
- Runtime monitoring compares execution logs against formal specifications to close the gap between implementation and specification.
Conclusion
- The preview of Aurora DSQL is available, and the team is eager to gather feedback from users to further refine the product.
- The goal is to build a scalable, highly available, and correct transactional database system that can meet the needs of a wide range of applications.