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Re:Introducing Cloud Spanner, a Global Database Service by computerex on Tuesday February 14, 2017 @10:55PM (#13649566)
I disagree, the "sheer scale" argument is not flat. The fact that one can scale horizontally and the other can't is significant.

Let me present a quote to you: 512 kb ram ought to be enough for everybody

Re:Introducing Cloud Spanner, a Global Database Service by awj on Wednesday February 15, 2017 @12:32PM (#13653689)
You can disagree on that if you'd like, but note that I explicitly acknowledged the possibility of exceeding these limits. In my opinion, for most cases/workloads, it's highly unlikely that you will and designing for that from the outset is a waste of time and resources.