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Firestore is literally built on top of spanner. So yeah, that's the answer. It's definitely pricey at first glance but it's a fixed cost based on nodes, compare

by spyspy 8y ago

Firestore is literally built on top of spanner. So yeah, that's the answer. It's definitely pricey at first glance but it's a fixed cost based on nodes, compared to say datastore where you pay for storage+reads+writes. Different use cases.

misframer 8y ago
> Firestore is literally built on top of spanner. Do you have a source for this? Thanks in advance.