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My guess is that the operational complexity of running a globally-distributed, fault-tolerant, performant SQL database surpasses the Spanner monthly bill (curre
by rollcat 9y ago
My guess is that the operational complexity of running a globally-distributed, fault-tolerant, performant SQL database surpasses the Spanner monthly bill (currently $0.90/h, or ~$675/mo, for a single node; $3/h or $2250/mo for a multi-region instance). Definitely not a side project kind of money, but think of the engineer-hours you'd put into maintaining such a setup in production -- plus the hardware costs.
- berns 9y agoAlso note that a minimum of 3 nodes is recommended for production environments. So it's $2000/month at least to get started.
- ibejoeb 9y agoThat's still a fraction of a competent database person, so it's still a deal. The downside is its limited feature set. There's no fixed-precision decimal type, and it's a pretty old SQL implementation.