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It's entertaining that one can make an innocent HN comment about something esoteric like cloud databases and be quickly corrected by three different Google engi
by edaemon 10y ago
It's entertaining that one can make an innocent HN comment about something esoteric like cloud databases and be quickly corrected by three different Google engineers.
To provide a non-Google example, AWS DynamoDB's pricing is based on throughput (similar to Google Cloud Datastore).
- wsh91 10y agoHeh. :) One technicality: DynamoDB's pricing is based on throughput, as you know, but it's provisioned throughput. (You manage your capacity unit allocations yourself, at least that was the case a little while ago.) You're charged money for how much you provision regardless of whether or not you actually consume the capacity units. Our pricing model (like Fauna's) only takes ops and storage into consideration.
- bscanlan 10y agoAh, so just like SDB. I wonder why AWS moved on from that model.
- itcmcgrath 10y agoI thank you for the compliment, but I am a lowly PM rather than an engineer, that doesn't find Cloud Databases [1] any more esoteric than the Cloud in general. :) You'll probably find there are a lot of distributed database geeks at Google, me included, so we all get attracted to exciting posts on new distributed systems. [1]: http://db-engines.com/en/blog_post/68 http://db-engines.com/en/blog_post/68
- oaktowner 10y agoI can vouch for itcmcgrath's lowliness.
- michaelmior 10y agoOne of the reasons I love HN :)