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Re:Introducing Cloud Spanner, a Global Database Service by johnsmith21006 on Tuesday February 14, 2017 @01:22PM (#13645747)
It is not close to equivalent. But I do want to get a better feel for if Google really has figured how to do basically the impossible. I want to see if this truly scales horizontally but of it does then competitors better hope for a much more detailed paper :)
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Re:Introducing Cloud Spanner, a Global Database Service by jack9 on Wednesday February 15, 2017 @02:18AM (#13650305)
> It is not close to equivalent.

It's equivalent, with different (unknown) constraints. Aurora is specifically for scaling workloads in the same way. You can say it's horizontal (machine) over vertical (resource) but it's all a matter of accounting.

The big nono is the Spanner pricepoint. I will stick with Aurora for scaling based on traffic I use, over pricey timeslices.

You would have to have quite a load to justify the switch from cheaper de jour solutions right now (AWS). Relying on the few that do, is a risk.

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