I think the point of this post is: You can use https://cloud.google.com/spanner/ https://cloud.google.com/spanner/ to work with a CP model (typically much less

I think the point of this post is: You can use https://cloud.google.com/spanner/ https://cloud.google.com/spanner/ to work with a CP model (typically much less of a headache than AP), while sacrificing so little availability that it's essentially CAP. The big concern I'd have (assuming using a Google-hosted database was practical) is the SLA. Unless I'm misreading https://cloud.google.com/spanner/sla https://cloud.google.com/spanner/sla, it seems like the SLA is...not very strong. Given how they discuss availability elsewhere, it seems like they're totally unwilling to put their money anywhere close to where their mouth is. That said, it does seem like going with Spanner to have the ease (and power) of consistency while also having reliability and scalability would be something to consider in a whole lot of situations. (Though I'd be reluctant to jump on it this early.)