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What is the monetisation plan? Purely SAAS with on-premise or an open source version with support like postgres/mysql?

by amalag 10y ago

evanweaver 10y ago
The serverless cloud is pay-as-you-go. There is no minimum spend, unlike Spanner's $1000 per month (apparently). And it's cheaper than operating any open source on cloud hardware. On-premises is licensed by core. We have a developer edition you can use on your local machine, but we don't currently have plans to open source FaunaDB itself.
- rgrove 10y ago
  Where did you read that Cloud Spanner has a $1,000 per month minimum spend? I can't seem to find any mention of this.
  - arjunnarayan 10y ago
    Minimum 3 nodes * node pricing of $.90/hour = 30.924*30 = 1944/month.
    - rgrove 10y ago
      Where is this 3-node minimum mentioned? URL please? Edit: Looks like maybe you're referring to the recommended 3 node minimum in production mentioned at https://cloud.google.com/spanner/docs/instance-configuration https://cloud.google.com/spanner/docs/instance-configuration
      - edaemon 10y ago
        While I'm not familiar with Spanner's inner workings, I would guess that they recommend 3 instances for quorum establishment in case a region becomes unreachable. If that's the case, using fewer than 3 instances could cause major problems.
        dragonwriter 10y ago
        Since Spanner currently only supports single-region deployments, it clearly isn't recommended as protection against a region becoming unavailable. It may be recommended as protection against an availability issue on an instance, though, which is, after all, a big reason why you'd want a distributed DB in production.
        inlined 10y ago
        Even within a single region you can put three nodes in different zones.
        edaemon 10y ago
        I suppose the loss of a region doesn't apply (yet), but yes, the quorum requirement would still apply even if you only had instances in a single region.

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What is the monetisation plan? Purely SAAS with on-premise or an open source version with support like postgres/mysql?

by amalag 10y ago

What is the monetisation plan? Purely SAAS with on-premise or an open source version with support like postgres/mysql?

evanweaver 10y ago
The serverless cloud is pay-as-you-go. There is no minimum spend, unlike Spanner's $1000 per month (apparently). And it's cheaper than operating any open source on cloud hardware. On-premises is licensed by core. We have a developer edition you can use on your local machine, but we don't currently have plans to open source FaunaDB itself.
- rgrove 10y ago
  Where did you read that Cloud Spanner has a $1,000 per month minimum spend? I can't seem to find any mention of this.
  - arjunnarayan 10y ago
    Minimum 3 nodes * node pricing of $.90/hour = 30.924*30 = 1944/month.
    - rgrove 10y ago
      Where is this 3-node minimum mentioned? URL please? Edit: Looks like maybe you're referring to the recommended 3 node minimum in production mentioned at https://cloud.google.com/spanner/docs/instance-configuration https://cloud.google.com/spanner/docs/instance-configuration
      - edaemon 10y ago
        While I'm not familiar with Spanner's inner workings, I would guess that they recommend 3 instances for quorum establishment in case a region becomes unreachable. If that's the case, using fewer than 3 instances could cause major problems.
        dragonwriter 10y ago
        Since Spanner currently only supports single-region deployments, it clearly isn't recommended as protection against a region becoming unavailable. It may be recommended as protection against an availability issue on an instance, though, which is, after all, a big reason why you'd want a distributed DB in production.
        inlined 10y ago
        Even within a single region you can put three nodes in different zones.
        edaemon 10y ago
        I suppose the loss of a region doesn't apply (yet), but yes, the quorum requirement would still apply even if you only had instances in a single region.