> It will be interesting if Amazon and Microsoft choose to compete with Google on this service. If we get to the point where you have databases, compute, storage, and connectivity services from those three at equal scale, well that would be a lot of choice for the developers!
There are also plenty of choices evolving for developers who aren't looking for hosted solutions (which can sometimes be a showstopper for enterprise on-prem deployments). There's a growing ecosystem of distributed open-source databases to look out for too.
Take Citus, for instance – a Postgres-compatible distributed store which automatically parallelizes normal SQL queries across machines. It's as easy to set up as adding an extension, and people are doing some staggering things in prod with it.
Different audience from BigQuery and Spanner, but no less exciting.
Disclaimer: no professional association, but love their product and the team.
There are also plenty of choices evolving for developers who aren't looking for hosted solutions (which can sometimes be a showstopper for enterprise on-prem deployments). There's a growing ecosystem of distributed open-source databases to look out for too.
Take Citus, for instance – a Postgres-compatible distributed store which automatically parallelizes normal SQL queries across machines. It's as easy to set up as adding an extension, and people are doing some staggering things in prod with it.
Different audience from BigQuery and Spanner, but no less exciting.
Disclaimer: no professional association, but love their product and the team.