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It is but it's quiet expensive.

• forgot-my-pw 9y ago
  It's the first in the market and pretty groundbreaking tech. Alternatively, you can use CockroachDB, TiDB, or other open source solutions, but you will need to manage your own hardware/cloud.
  • kyledrake 9y ago
    Right. That's the choice cash-strapped startups will make instead of using this. And once they're experts at that particular problem domain, they will figure out how to make their first choice redundant/HA enough that they probably won't need what spanner provides. I used Linux instead of Windows NT as a kid because it was cheaper and ran well on cheaper hardware. Then I became an expert at it. Then it became the OS I used for servers. I've wanted to use spanner for years, but at this point, the longest my production SQL database will ever be down is for less than 2-3 minutes, and it's not worth more than the cost of a rack full of servers and a massive migration effort to theoretically shave off a couple minutes of potential downtime for me. If I'm going to go that route, I would probably just opt for something like DRBD. The way my current infrastructure is set up, it wouldn't add any costs for me to do this.
  • Thaxll 9y ago
    Those are not even close to Cloud Spanner, what make Spanner great is all the Google backend reliability that you don't have to manage.
    • aoeusnth1 9y ago
      You can run CockroachDB on GCE instances.