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Seems silly to not make it free forever for say, 1gb storage and certain amounts of reads and writes a month. If cost isn’t an issue my experience is that span
by endisneigh 4y ago
Seems silly to not make it free forever for say, 1gb storage and certain amounts of reads and writes a month.
If cost isn’t an issue my experience is that spanner is the best, problem is there’s no way to know this without paying a lot
- londons_explore 4y agoI think spanner itself isn't really good at scaling down to be very small and cheap, so Google isn't happy to offer small instances for totally-free. That's Google's mistake tho - if they had had a totally free option when they started, students would have built pet projects on it, and now they'd have a whole ecosystem of companies giving hundreds of millions of revenue for it. They should have offered a totally free version (at a loss), knowing that in the future they could do the engineering work to make it cheap for them to run. For example, stick 10,000 users into the same spanner database with some frontend to check no user can access rows owned by another. Then, when a user gets large and wants to pay for dedicated spanner, migrate them out of the shared instance.