Biggest Under Reported Story: Google’s BigTable Costs 10 Times Less than Amazon’s SimpleDB
Why isn’t Google’s aggressive new database pricing strategy getting more pub? That’s what Bill Katz, instigator of the GAE Meetup and prize winning science fiction author is wondering:
It's surprising that the blogosphere hasn't picked up the biggest difference in pricing: Google's datastore is less than a tenth of the price of Amazon's SimpleDB while offering a better API.
If money matters to you then the burn rate under GAE could be convincingly lower. Let’s compare the numbers:
