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blueg3 on Oct 12, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Google Cloud Spanner is now half the cost of Amazo...

Photos, Gmail, and Ads use Spanner, not Cloud Spanner.

Apparently Cloud Spanner doesn't support protobuf columns? It would be hard for any internal Google product to use it under that restriction.

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