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To hearken back to the previous comparison of Java versus compiled languages, AWS has a case here where a naive rewrite of their JVM database in Rust created massive performance wins.

At this point, you need to be asking yourself: Why would anybody ever write a database in Java?

https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2025/05/just-make-it-scale-an-aurora-dsql-story.html

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