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Concur. The pricing makes sense for their "target market" of folks who currently have a "bursting at the seams" MySQL or PgSQL instance, but it locks out folks
by pramsey 10y ago
Concur. The pricing makes sense for their "target market" of folks who currently have a "bursting at the seams" MySQL or PgSQL instance, but it locks out folks just getting started with a tiny database and low load. This seems like bad positioning: the "bursting" folks will have to decide between the cost of re-hosting their whole system on the Cloud Spanner and trying to incrementally keep their current platform running; the small folks who would like to organically grow on a platform without scaling limits are locked out of the low end, so by the the time they are big enough to need Cloud Spanner... they too with be forced into the "re-host or muddle on" decision.
- 0xdeadbeefbabe 10y ago> The pricing makes sense for their "target market" of folks who currently have a "bursting at the seams" MySQL or PgSQL instance My intuition, which I hope is wrong, suggests this is a small market.
- stickfigure 10y agoThis seems like a real problem. The "bursting at the seams" people will need a pretty significant rewrite to run on Spanner, which seriously limits the appeal. The ideal market for Spanner seems to be new projects developed by big companies that know that big traffic will arrive on day 1. In other words, Google. Which I guess shouldn't be too surprising...