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1. 511.▲
   by vgt 11y ago

   Actually spanner and Bigtable have different and complementary use cases
2. 512.▲
   by vgt 11y ago

   The gentleman who produced these benchmarks replied directly to this thread. He also has been very open with sharing his scripts and setups, so that you can reproduce it yourself. He encourages it actually!
3. 513.▲
   by vgt 11y ago

   I don't believe you need to manage anything with BigTable.. "instances" is a concept to describe iterations of scale only
4. 514.▲
   by vgt 11y ago

   I'm genuinely curious why you hold that opinion, especially in context of a thread that discusses a service that's available through the standard hbase api
5. 515.▲
   by vgt 12y ago

   I suggest you read, for example, this article from TC: http://techcrunch.com/2015/03/11/google-launches-cloud-stora... This information should challenge your argument that Nearline is not groundbreaking, at l
6. 516.▲
   by vgt 12y ago

   If you'd like to put 10PB in storage, let's talk offline :) source: SE at Google Cloud
7. 517.▲
   by vgt 12y ago

   Google Cloud Storage is cheaper than Amazon S3: http://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing/ https://cloud.google.com/storage/pricing
8. 518.▲
   by vgt 12y ago

   Just curious why you think that Amazon is cheapest? Unless you do heavy RIs, Google Cloud is cheaper.
9. 519.▲
   by vgt 12y ago

   paywall
10. 520.▲
    by vgt 12y ago

    you must go deeper
11. 521.▲
    by vgt 12y ago

    Specifically on AppEngine vs Elastic Beanstalk, Google released Managed VMs, which is the ability to run IaaS on PaaS. Essentially the best of both worlds: https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/managed-vms/
12. 522.▲
    by vgt 12y ago

    Urs Holzle announced in January publically that Google's TI and Google Cloud will merge... thoughts?
13. 523.▲
    by vgt 12y ago

    https://gigaom.com/2014/09/29/amazon-and-rackspace-must-be-w...
14. 524.▲
    by vgt 12y ago

    Neither AWS nor Azure fully matched Google's last price cuts back in April.
15. 525.▲
    by vgt 12y ago

    For all of you worried that this is for VC-backed startups only, Google offers $500 coupon codes (which should be plenty to bootstrap a concept). Feel free to ping me. In addition, both AppEngine and BigQuery have free usage tiers.
16. 526.▲
    by vgt 12y ago

    You must be talking about AppEngine specifically, which is PaaS (Elastic Beanstalk is similar, and only supports a handful of languages as well). Google Compute Engine doesn't have PaaS-like restrictions, much like EC2.