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Also important to note that it's a NewSQL system, not a full blown RDBMS. You can't lift and shift your MySQL application and expect full blown horizontal scalability and such.

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I'm surprised no one has challenged this yet - if there is anything that cloud spanner does better than most things out there, it's "full-blown horizontal scalability"! There are very few systems out there that have tackled the issue of scaling beyond cross-AZ in a non-bullshit way.

You can't lift and shift your MySQL

I'm surprised no one has challenged this yet

Are you saying that a company could lift and shift MySQL then?

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