Very sad to hear this news, but not so unexpected.
As a distributed database engineer, we have been working with some universities and exploring the optimization of database on Intel Optane for a long time, and even have published some papers.
But everything was only in the experimental stage, it was difficult for us to use the research successfully in production, because nearly all of of our customers hadn't bought Intel Optane. They thought Optane was too expensive and didn't find suitable scenarios. As far as I know, the only successful story was from one of our customer, he used Optane for Redis which had an acceptable latency and better cost-effective.
Things go worse when the cloud is raising. We find that we can't use Optane on the cloud, so our later priority is to explore the optimization on the cloud disk like EBS GP3, etc.
As a distributed database engineer, we have been working with some universities and exploring the optimization of database on Intel Optane for a long time, and even have published some papers.
But everything was only in the experimental stage, it was difficult for us to use the research successfully in production, because nearly all of of our customers hadn't bought Intel Optane. They thought Optane was too expensive and didn't find suitable scenarios. As far as I know, the only successful story was from one of our customer, he used Optane for Redis which had an acceptable latency and better cost-effective.
Things go worse when the cloud is raising. We find that we can't use Optane on the cloud, so our later priority is to explore the optimization on the cloud disk like EBS GP3, etc.