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To be fair, you shouldn't even run MySQL on an f1-micro. This is more on par with an 18 vcpu raw server, before you'd even consider any value that the software

by boulos 10y ago

To be fair, you shouldn't even run MySQL on an f1-micro. This is more on par with an 18 vcpu raw server, before you'd even consider any value that the software provides. I'd certainly love to see us get to a world where we can split up a single spanner "install" in an isolated, multitenant manner, but even for a small company, $8k/year is admittedly a small fraction of one engineer. At a company with several, you can share your single Spanner instance just like you would any other database. Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud (but not Spanner).

_bpo 10y ago
> even for a small company, $8k/year is admittedly a small fraction of one engineer This is certainly true, but overlooks the fact that many major products start out as experimental projects, and $8k/year is a significant investment for an experiment. If there's a reasonable upgrade path from traditional databases like MySQL and Postgres this shouldn't be a big deal, but if the answer is "rewrite your app" it will probably be a friction point for adoption.