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0 pointsairwot47y ago0 comments

As far as I'm aware these offerings support transactions across the entire database.

Google Cloud Spanner: https://cloud.google.com/spanner/docs/transactions

Google Cloud Firestore: https://firebase.google.com/docs/firestore/manage-data/trans...

Plus if you use Cloud Firestore in Datastore Mode then Google Cloud Datastore would satisfy this requirement as well.

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Spanner is not a non-relational database.

As for Firestore, it’s not clear whether it supports cross-collection transactions. Cloud Datastore does not support cross-namespace transactions AFAICT.

wsh917y ago

a) Cloud Firestore supports transactions across the entire database. You can learn more about them here: https://cloud.google.com/firestore/docs/manage-data/transact....

b) Given that the primary use case for namespaces was/is multitenancy, it's not clear to me why you'd want to transact across them. Nevertheless, you can. What's leading you to draw this conclusion?

otterley7y ago

The documentation is what led me to that conclusion, since it's not explicit as to what the transaction boundaries are, but I could be mistaken. Does this mean that the poster's claim is erroneous?

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0 pointsairwot47y ago0 comments

As far as I'm aware these offerings support transactions across the entire database.

Google Cloud Spanner: https://cloud.google.com/spanner/docs/transactions

Google Cloud Firestore: https://firebase.google.com/docs/firestore/manage-data/trans...

Plus if you use Cloud Firestore in Datastore Mode then Google Cloud Datastore would satisfy this requirement as well.

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otterley7y ago

Spanner is not a non-relational database.

As for Firestore, it’s not clear whether it supports cross-collection transactions. Cloud Datastore does not support cross-namespace transactions AFAICT.

wsh917y ago

a) Cloud Firestore supports transactions across the entire database. You can learn more about them here: https://cloud.google.com/firestore/docs/manage-data/transact....

b) Given that the primary use case for namespaces was/is multitenancy, it's not clear to me why you'd want to transact across them. Nevertheless, you can. What's leading you to draw this conclusion?

otterley7y ago

The documentation is what led me to that conclusion, since it's not explicit as to what the transaction boundaries are, but I could be mistaken. Does this mean that the poster's claim is erroneous?

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