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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.

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

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

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.

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

Frugal, froogle was the old name for google shopping.

Thanks. Frugal is exactly what I meant.

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?

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.

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

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