https://quizlet.com/blog/quizlet-cloud-spanner https://quizlet.com/blog/quizlet-cloud-spanner For lower QPS, normal RDBMS solutions (like mysql) have lower lat

https://quizlet.com/blog/quizlet-cloud-spanner https://quizlet.com/blog/quizlet-cloud-spanner For lower QPS, normal RDBMS solutions (like mysql) have lower latency than Spanner by a decent amount. But Spanner scales way beyond what MySQL is capable, which is where it starts to shine.