How to design a DBMS for Telco requirements

My colleague Zhao Song presented a walkthrough of the evolution of the DBMSs and how it relates to Google Spanner, Aurora, PolarDB and MySQL NDB Cluster . I had some interesting discussions with him on the topic and it makes sense to return to the 1990s when I designed NDB Cluster and the impact on the recovery algorithms from the requirements for a Telco DBMS. A Telco DBMS is a DBMS that operates…