It takes a lot of engineering time and effort to be able to switch between mentioned alternatives. E.g. Druid and Drill vs. BigQuery.
This article is more probably to convince ppl to use Google Cloud rather than how to run multicloud strategy.
This article is more probably to convince ppl to use Google Cloud rather than how to run multicloud strategy.
If their "cloud" offerings were all just hosted instances of open source, there would be no lock-in, but they would have no 'competitive edge'.
I think this is more about letting Google fanboy dev's sell higher-ups on GCP because "hey look they're not trying to lock us in like AWS is!"
Honestly this just sounda like Google m/o (aka embrace/extend/extinguish 2.0) at everything.
Gmail sort of supports imap and smtp but in several ways it's broken, but users don't care that it's google's fault, they just want their free email.
Big table is not hbase it's just sort of compatible, but developers dont care they just want to drink the cool aid.
If Google really wanted to commit to anti-lock-in they would focus on runningc open source software that they use their infinite budget to tune to absolute best performance, combined with contributions back to those projects, to improve them where tuning alone isn't enough.
Well... to be fair here, Google did invent BigTable, then the HBase clone was created based on the public information about it.
I'm talking about Google's "support" for the HBase API in their BigTable service for GCP.
E.g. in the past we had OpenGL, PC which spur a lot of innovation and created whole industries. Common subset that allows seamless migrations.
E.g. I wish we have standard for big table like databases:
1. Google Cloud BigTable.
2. DynamoDB.
3. HBase/Cassandra.
Common API even in non-perfect way is so much better than everybody reinventing the wheel from scratch, because some tiny use case doesn't fit in the previous API.
BTW when people say cloud here I assume they mean PaaS and not IaaS because IaaS has many standards (openstack).
Yes. For public cloud, it's AWS v. everyone else right now. This is why Docker is popular among IT mega-vendors because container portability gives IBM/Microsoft Azure/GCP/Red Hat a fighting chance to stop AWS from gobbling up the entire cloud infrastructure.
Container portability => less AWS lock-in => They'll come to my platform, perchance.
Some relevant articles: http://redmonk.com/jgovernor/2016/07/15/what-kubernetes-and-... and http://redmonk.com/jgovernor/2016/03/08/rise-of-the-docker-p...