[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.