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If Aurora powers huge websites, spanner is for ginormous websites. Think a multiplier to netflix's database needs.
by cobookman 10y ago
If Aurora powers huge websites, spanner is for ginormous websites. Think a multiplier to netflix's database needs.
- dzhiurgis 10y agoCurious to know what are Netflix's needs for relational database? Doesn't strike me as a business with complex logic.
- cobookman 10y agoI'd assume they keep track of who watches what for their 'continue watching series...' pain. Netflix was given as an example of scale. I guess for another example, spanner could be used to store every visa transaction
- threeseed 10y agoNetflix mainly uses Cassandra as their database. And their needs are reasonably complex. They use machine learning and big data analytics to generate the list of videos that you should be watching. In order for those to work they need to capture a whole raft of end user metrics e.g. at what point you paused video X.