If we're on the topic comparing Spanner, here's the 15-second live demo of resizing Spanner from 70 to 99 nodes at [0]. The act itself is quite unremarkable, but the complexity abstracted away is awesome.
Both Spanner and Datastore do quite well in the cloud for "huge scale" as fully managed services. And with any deployment on-premise, one certainly must manage their own capacity "by hand".
Both Spanner and Datastore do quite well in the cloud for "huge scale" as fully managed services. And with any deployment on-premise, one certainly must manage their own capacity "by hand".
(work at Google Cloud)
[0] https://youtu.be/kwnWfHq2EfQ?t=11m48s