[etaioinshrdlu]

Project idea: globally hosted / managed CockroachDB that lets developers quickly start building small apps cheaply or free using this database.

This database has the potential to dethrone Spanner in a major way.

[joris]

That’s on their roadmap: https://www.cockroachlabs.com/docs/stable/frequently-asked-q...

[SoulMan]

My Org/team is too conservative to use this is they have to hire ops and too froogle to use spanner.

[kevincox]

Why do you think that hosted cochroachdb would be cheaper then hosted spanner? Google has been optimizing spanner performance for years so I would expect that it will be cheaper to run for quite a while. Of course the markup can be different but I wouldn't expect it to make a huge difference.

[tyingq]

Maybe training? Spanner's lack of UPDATE/INSERT/DELETE requires a team that's trained pretty specifically on how it works.

[ZeikJT]

Frugal, froogle was the old name for google shopping.

[SoulMan]

Thanks. Frugal is exactly what I meant.

[thinkloop]

I just started playing with spanner. The API is nice. Simple txs are a bit slow - seconds instead of milliseconds - ok for my use-case. I don't hear much about it though, few articles on HN, I was wondering how mature it was and how widely used it is. Is it common knowledge that it is used by a lot of orgs?

[etaioinshrdlu]

De-throne in the sense of being the top-tier multi-master consistent transactional DB. I doubt too many people use Spanner outside of Google in reality. Google would likely eventually adopt cockroackdb if it was clearly better long term.

[Gigablah]

There’s arguably nothing to dethrone, Spanner is too cost prohibitive for small developers in the first place.