> Sooo they're finally launching a Spanner contender?
It may be even better in one important way: (if I understand correctly) for Spanner, you have to provision servers -- and keep them running. So GCP version of Spanner really makes no sense for anything that isn't huge.
This sounds more like "Spanner as a Service" -- which is something I've always wanted (for my hobby projects, no less :)
MapleWalnut|1 year ago
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/aurora-dsql/latest/userguide/wor...
timmg|1 year ago
It may be even better in one important way: (if I understand correctly) for Spanner, you have to provision servers -- and keep them running. So GCP version of Spanner really makes no sense for anything that isn't huge.
This sounds more like "Spanner as a Service" -- which is something I've always wanted (for my hobby projects, no less :)
Unless I misundertood, anyway.
steepben|1 year ago
hobs|1 year ago
Seeing the No to configurable for some of the settings is the most telling hard limits that we can see up front.
Some Very Noteable ones are: Maximum size of all data modified within a write transaction: 10 MiB Maximum transaction time: 5 minutes