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by GabeWeiss_ 4y ago
Yah, I know. The Cloud version has a lot of stuff happening behind the scenes that makes it a bit trickier to have a smaller machine configuration. It's being worked on, but I can't speak to timelines/configurations.
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by GabeWeiss_ 4y ago
I realize this may sound hollow coming from a Google employee...but I am fighting to be sure something like this stops happening (in particular the deprecating causing loss of functionality). Google is (a little) better than it has been in
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by GabeWeiss_ 4y ago
OMG no, we didn't reimplement Postgres. Definitely started from the PG kernel and made modifications from there.
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by GabeWeiss_ 4y ago
You're looking at Cloud AlloyDB sounds like? If you deploy AlloyDB to GCE (instead of locally, etc) you can provision a smaller instance than that. 2cpu(shared core)/4GB memory with a 20GB boot disk (AlloyDB takes up ~13) would ru
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by GabeWeiss_ 4y ago
100% hear you. I realize this may sound hollow coming from a Google employee, but stay tuned on specifics around licensing and costs. Being a tech preview, there's been virtually no discussion on specifics yet. We just wanted to get th
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by GabeWeiss_ 4y ago
I have many thoughts here...but let's start with: Do you have your process of how you tested performance? My guess is the eng team would love to look at what you tested.
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by GabeWeiss_ 4y ago
That's how I've been thinking/talking about it. It should be a drop-in replacement for Postgres. Obviously the install process isn't as smooth yet, but, technical preview...
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by GabeWeiss_ 4y ago
Not as of yet, no. I've gently nudged the eng/product teams in this direction, but for now it's all being kept in-house.
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by GabeWeiss_ 4y ago
Definitely not an emulator. It's fully AlloyDB...in a container. We'll be working moving forward to smooth out the install process (tech preview, focus was on getting it in y'alls hands). In my mind, it's a proper Postgr
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by GabeWeiss_ 4y ago
Not sure what you mean here. The Spanner trial is a completely separate thing from the $300 starting credits. So if you use the Spanner free trial, you aren't spending any part of the $300 credits during that trial period. You can also
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by GabeWeiss_ 4y ago
TIL! Thank you, email sent.
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by GabeWeiss_ 4y ago
Spanner does have an emulator that you can use locally with the gcloud SDK: https://cloud.google.com/spanner/docs/emulator
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by GabeWeiss_ 4y ago
No extensions, no. Think of the interface more like a way for accessing Spanner features using Postgres, rather than using Postgres with a Spanner backend.
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by GabeWeiss_ 4y ago
Correct, we (Google) didn't make the post, so unfortunately we don't have access to changing the title. Just have to hope folks read the comments.
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by GabeWeiss_ 4y ago
Neither, it's just not quite what folks expect. The postgres/spanner interface is about accessing SPANNER functionality via a PG interface. It's not about using Postgres with a Spanner back-end. That's all.
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by GabeWeiss_ 4y ago
Yeah, we (Googler here) know, but it's not our post, so we can't edit it. :D Best we can do is hope people read the comments (weird thing to say on the internet).
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by GabeWeiss_ 4y ago
This isn't true at all. Where are you getting your numbers from?
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by GabeWeiss_ 4y ago
Yup, correct. The title here isn't right. It's a free trial, not a free tier.
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by GabeWeiss_ 4y ago
Yah, the title's not 100% right. :) There isn't a free TIER of Spanner. This is a 90 day free trial.
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by GabeWeiss_ 4y ago
It's like, faster Postgres that also handles a lot of boilerplate infrastructure set up like creating replicas, load balancing, vacuum management, etc. That's a SERIOUS TL;DR though. This blog post covers a good overview and some
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by GabeWeiss_ 4y ago
Not anything I can talk about now unfortunately. Stay tuned though. :)
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by GabeWeiss_ 4y ago
The 2x was based on an Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) benchmark that is based on industry standard TPC-C benchmark in our own testing.
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by GabeWeiss_ 4y ago
Thanks! We feel pretty strongly that managed OSS is hugely valuable.
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by GabeWeiss_ 4y ago
Similar in that they're both managed relational databases aimed at scaling for intense workloads. AlloyDB has specific optimizations around PG that means it runs more efficiently than Aurora for Postgres.
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by GabeWeiss_ 4y ago
They aren't related at all.
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by GabeWeiss_ 4y ago
Landing page on the Google Cloud docs pages: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/introducing...
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Google Cloud released a new database product (AlloyDB)
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by GabeWeiss_ 8y ago
No no, you misunderstand me. I'm not saying it's FOR human safety...it's for profit. But the pushback on "losing jobs to machines" is less when the end-result is replacing human jobs that have a high degree of dange
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by GabeWeiss_ 8y ago
Also of note, the societal backlash of replacing humans with robots has been pretty massive. So it's not just cost-effectiveness that's being balanced, but care with the workforce not to implement too many replacements too fast. T
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by GabeWeiss_ 8y ago
As it not only says in the original article, but also in many of the comments, you can't just do that because the abuser knows if you've superseded their control, and abuse can escalate into physical if that action is taken. It&#x

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