"I'm not saying either system is better than the other, but doing it Google's way is certainly easier for Enterprises that want to make the move, and why Amazon

"I'm not saying either system is better than the other, but doing it Google's way is certainly easier for Enterprises that want to make the move, and why Amazon is starting to break with tradition and release products that let you do things "the old way" while hiding the details in an abstraction." No, they said this in the F1 RDBMS or Spanner papers. They originally did the NoSQL, eventual-consistency type of stuff. This had app developers required to do a lot of work to avoid problems that model can create. Apparently, even their bright people had enough problems with it that they decided to eliminate or simplify that situation with stronger consistency. Took some brilliant engineering but now they have a database easy to use as old model with advantages of newer ones. If anything, they learned some hard lessons with a good solution to them. Now, they're offering it to others. I was hoping they'd do this instead of keep it internal only. F1 and Spanner are amazing tech that could benefit many companies.