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So does Cloud Spanner replace the existing Google Cloud SQL offering [1]? What are the pros/cons of each? [1] https://cloud.google.com/sql/ https://cloud.googl

• floatboth 10y ago
  That offering is just normal managed MySQL, the new thing is a custom built database for huge scalability, much more expensive of course.
  • nodesocket 10y ago
    Right that's what I was getting at, a typical web app does not and probably should not start with Cloud Spanner (ignoring the fact it costs $0.90 per hour per node). Cloud Spanner seems like it is attacking the big data market correct?
    • floatboth 10y ago
      Something like that. But not necessarily the Big Data that's being analyzed, that's usually done with Hadoop/Spark/whatever is the big thing now. It seems to be aimed at, like, huge apps that actually need horizontal scalability.
• campers 10y ago
  It much closer to the Datastore https://cloud.google.com/datastore/ https://cloud.google.com/datastore/ which also has co-located parent-child tables and GQL instead of SQL, and automatic horizontal scalability