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> if you need Spanner, you’re likely to bump into both of those limitations That’s the point: if you need spanner, Google wants your money. This is intended a
by qeternity 4y ago
> if you need Spanner, you’re likely to bump into both of those limitations
That’s the point: if you need spanner, Google wants your money.
This is intended as a way for people to play around with it free of charge, in the hopes that they will realize they need it.
- acdha 4y agoYes, I’m just wondering who this announcement matters to - if you’re a tiny startup where the cost savings is what tips you over the edge, are you likely to be using enough data for it to matter? If you’re at a big enterprise, you probably can’t properly evaluate quickly and will need more than 10GB but are almost certainly going to have enough budget that the free trial won’t factor in to your decision. There are some people in the middle but I’m curious how many there actually are with these restrictions.
- clhodapp 4y agoIf you are a developer at a large company, you might be able to mess around with this and decide that it's worthwhile to push for a proper evaluation with a larger dataset.
- acdha 4y agoI guess, but in my experience that either means you have enough budget to experiment anyway or are locked down to the point that you won’t be able to do anything which could cost money. What I wish they had was a cap: allow me to tell the accountants that I can guarantee that a developer’s training will not leave the free tier.
- clhodapp 4y agoThe HN title is very misleading: It's a not actually a free tier, it's a time-limited, storage-capped free trial (separate from the normal $300 GCP free trial). Therefore, I don't think that there's a risk of it costing anything. I guess I will say that I don't actually think that this is all that useful, personally, but I can see it as coming in handy in a very specific scenario.