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Prediction: AWS Aurora will win this award for 2018.

• mrep 9y ago
  You think so? Spanner looks more amazing to me but I haven't had the chance to try it yet. Aurora did half my teams query time over traditional MYSQL RDS though.
  • nemothekid 9y ago
    Spanner is very cool, but AFAIK you will only ever use it when you realize you need to use it. It costs a minimum of $400/mo (3 nodes, in a single region, triple that for multi region) and the API is non-standard (you can execute non-DML SQL against it, but DML queries are via RPC). Aurora, OTOH is very easy to setup, speaks both Postgres and MySQL which makes it a ton more accessible. Spanner is amazing, but I don't think it will get the distribution to be DBMS of the year. In that case, I really wish GCP had an Aurora-like solution. A standard-SQL database for applications on a pay-per-use model. Not having to lock your application into something like Cloud Datastore is nice and not having to teach people about it's weirdness is better.
    • mrep 9y ago
      The biggest google cloud sql instance is 5760$ a month on demand and 6681$ on AWS. Both of them are designed for very large scale datasets. I find little reason to lock yourself into aurora or spanner if a single RDBMS fits your needs for cheaper pricing.
      • nemothekid 9y ago
        It's my understanding that there is no (reduced) lock in with Aurora because its "just MySQL/Posgresql". Push comes to shove you can `mysqldump` it, just like you can do with Cloud SQL or RDS. Spanner is a completely different beast.