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Fair enough, I'm not (obviously) as familiar with the AWS systems and how the price to performance ratio works out for all the products.

Of course, I was simplifying. It's always more complicated doing a migration. :)

Yes, but QPS vs. "queries to the API". The difference is the time slice. I should have been more explicit. The key here really is the time function between the numbers. That the AW…

Parts, yes. In reference to the specifics mentioned in here though, those services run on Infra Spanner, not Cloud Spanner, but they're the same stack. The main reason things like …

Tell me more (bonus points if you find me on LinkedIn or other social because tracking comment responses on HN is really rough). I'd love feedback you have so I can bring it back t…

Really glad to hear! Please find me on social media or LinkedIn and let me know how it goes for you using the PG layer. I'd love to hear more feedback.

You can! Spanner has a free trial: https://cloud.google.com/spanner/docs/free-trial-instance . Keep in mind, that per-request pricing isn't free unless you stay under the free tier…

The DeWitt clause is only there to prevent badly written performance data from getting attention it shouldn't. If anyone writes a good benchmark (good process, not good results, ne…

More specifically, infra and cloud Spanner are the same stack. So they've progressed together hugely since 2013. :) The real differences between the two are more about the internal…

But that's kind of a moot point. I mean, if you're even looking at the likes of DynamoDB or Spanner, it's because you need the scale of those engines. PostgreSQL is fantastic, and …

100% this, and even though I work for Google I absolutely agree. BUT, for the folks that need it, PostgreSQL just DOESN'T cut it, so it's why we have databases like DynamoDB, Spann…

True, but one would hope that both sides in this case would be putting their best foot forward. Getting peak performance out of right sizing your DB is part of that discussion. I c…

Infra and Cloud Spanner are the same stack. Having those services run on infra is more about the legacy of tooling to shift it rather than anything around performance or ability to…

Infra and Cloud Spanner are the same stack. Having those services run on infra is more about the legacy of tooling to shift it rather than anything around performance or ability to…

Just as a hand in the air...Be careful about what you're comparing here. # of API calls over a period of time is...largely irrelevant in the face of QPS. I can happily write a DDOS…

My PM also reminded me, depending on the data set size too, if it's bigger than the buffer cache, we might see some improvements over PG as well from that (we've made memory improv…

I'm assuming you mean "I start using this under a free dev license, and want to shift up to the paid production version"? And what that looks like? If that's the case, I don't know…

The improvements we've made on the read side of things likely won't affect the geo data directly, BUT, depending on what other aggregate data you're combining with the geo data you…

It really is, yes. I can't go into a lot of detail on the "why" because it's not open source and the product team would murder me...but I highly encourage folks to try it for thems…

As a heads up, we're unlikely to make the codebase for it open. I might be able to convince the product team to open source some components of it (our GM has talked about this befo…

No worries on the negativity! I totally understand. No one likes to have time wasted. :( I'm getting the more detailed info on the cache use-case to the eng team just so they're aw…

We don't have specific details yet about licensing or pricing. Stay tuned as we get closer to GA. Having said that, we're pushing hard for a free usage tier and the product team is…

We encourage folks to draw their own conclusions, but we have done comparisons and ours is more efficient and produces faster results. I only say test yourself because I can't give…

Not for Omni no. End-users are responsible for any HA/DR/Replication needs. Cloud AlloyDB has all of it built in, but since it was so tightly tied to the Cloud infrastructure it wa…

100% I'm a huge PG fan as well. This should absolutely be "PG + performance and QoL improvements". Where it's not, we want to hear about it.