Comments on: Biggest Under Reported Story: Google’s BigTable Costs 10 Times Less than Amazon’s SimpleDB http://www.johnmwillis.com/amazon/biggest-under-reported-story-googles-bigtable-costs-10-times-less-than-amazons-simpledb/ JOHNMWILLIS BLOG Wed, 02 Jun 2010 23:53:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Chris Sears http://www.johnmwillis.com/amazon/biggest-under-reported-story-googles-bigtable-costs-10-times-less-than-amazons-simpledb/comment-page-1/#comment-7273 Chris Sears Wed, 04 Jun 2008 19:46:59 +0000 http://www.johnmwillis.com/?p=996#comment-7273 It's an invalid comparison. Almost no one uses SimpleDB, whereas almost every AppEngine app will use BigTable/GQL. They solve different problems. It's like comparing MS Access to Oracle. To the larger point that Google's AppEngine is priced competitively with Amazon AWS... is that news? I don't think so. It's exactly what you would expect from Google. It’s an invalid comparison. Almost no one uses SimpleDB, whereas almost every AppEngine app will use BigTable/GQL. They solve different problems. It’s like comparing MS Access to Oracle.

To the larger point that Google’s AppEngine is priced competitively with Amazon AWS… is that news? I don’t think so. It’s exactly what you would expect from Google.

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