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I was at the Google Cloud conference a few months ago and spoke to a few engineers there about Spanner. When I asked them about how it would affect their other

I was at the Google Cloud conference a few months ago and spoke to a few engineers there about Spanner. When I asked them about how it would affect their other storage options (e.g., datastore, cloud sql, etc.), they said that over time, all of their internal storage systems would be moved over to Spanner. His words were "you'll be using Spanner whether you know it or not." This engineer was clearly a cheerleader for the product, so I'm dubious as to whether that will actually happen, but it's clear that they have quite a bit of confidence in it.

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Artemis2 9y ago
That sounds a lot like the announcement of Azure Cosmos DB: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cosmos-db/introduction https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cosmos-db/introductio... > we made the service available externally to all Azure Developers in the form of Azure DocumentDB. Azure Cosmos DB is the next big leap in the evolution of DocumentDB and we are now making it available for you to use. As a part of this release of Azure Cosmos DB, DocumentDB customers (with their data) are automatically Azure Cosmos DB customers. From my understanding, DocumentDB ≈ Dynamo, while Cosmos DB would be closer to Cloud Spanner.
pacala 9y ago
Google's game is planet scale systems. Cloud SQL is woefully inadequate, basically a single machine DB with replication. Datastore is built on Megastore, which is the precursor to Spanner, largely confined to a handful of nearly located datacenters [think US-East]. Google's internal data will be stored on / migrated to Spanner, I expect sooner rather than later. We'll be using Spanner whenever we'll be using Google. Furthermore, it's likely we'll use Spanner whenever we use a planet scale system built on GCP, say Spotify.

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I was at the Google Cloud conference a few months ago and spoke to a few engineers there about Spanner. When I asked them about how it would affect their other

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Artemis2 9y ago
That sounds a lot like the announcement of Azure Cosmos DB: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cosmos-db/introduction https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cosmos-db/introductio... > we made the service available externally to all Azure Developers in the form of Azure DocumentDB. Azure Cosmos DB is the next big leap in the evolution of DocumentDB and we are now making it available for you to use. As a part of this release of Azure Cosmos DB, DocumentDB customers (with their data) are automatically Azure Cosmos DB customers. From my understanding, DocumentDB ≈ Dynamo, while Cosmos DB would be closer to Cloud Spanner.
pacala 9y ago
Google's game is planet scale systems. Cloud SQL is woefully inadequate, basically a single machine DB with replication. Datastore is built on Megastore, which is the precursor to Spanner, largely confined to a handful of nearly located datacenters [think US-East]. Google's internal data will be stored on / migrated to Spanner, I expect sooner rather than later. We'll be using Spanner whenever we'll be using Google. Furthermore, it's likely we'll use Spanner whenever we use a planet scale system built on GCP, say Spotify.