Honestly, just use Spanner. It's the perfect database*. If you need to trade freshness for savings, put a cache in front of it.
If I were building a new startup in 2023, I would need a mountain of evidence against using Spanner. It's ugly that it locks you into GCP but hey an iPhone locks you into Apple's ecosystem, that's just the price you pay to get good things.
* unless you need timeseries, columnar, FTS, geospatial, graph or something special like that
If I were building a new startup in 2023, I would need a mountain of evidence against using Spanner. It's ugly that it locks you into GCP but hey an iPhone locks you into Apple's ecosystem, that's just the price you pay to get good things.
* unless you need timeseries, columnar, FTS, geospatial, graph or something special like that