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CockroachDB vs. Google Cloud Spanner

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
CockroachDB
Score 6.7 out of 10
N/A
CockroachDB is a resilient, globally distributed SQL data platform used by enterprises to run mission-critical AI and other applications that scale and survive disaster. It runs on the Big 3 public clouds, in private clouds, on prem, and in hybrid configurations.N/A
Google Cloud Spanner
Score 5.6 out of 10
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Google Cloud Spanner is a cloud database-as-a-service product offered as a service on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).N/A
Pricing
CockroachDBGoogle Cloud Spanner
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
CockroachDBGoogle Cloud Spanner
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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CockroachDBGoogle Cloud Spanner
Features
CockroachDBGoogle Cloud Spanner
Database-as-a-Service
Comparison of Database-as-a-Service features of Product A and Product B
CockroachDB
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Ratings
Google Cloud Spanner
7.8
2 Ratings
9% below category average
Automatic software patching00 Ratings8.82 Ratings
Database scalability00 Ratings8.82 Ratings
Automated backups00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Database security provisions00 Ratings5.82 Ratings
Monitoring and metrics00 Ratings5.82 Ratings
Automatic host deployment00 Ratings7.62 Ratings
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User Ratings
CockroachDBGoogle Cloud Spanner
Likelihood to Recommend
-
(0 ratings)
7.4
(2 ratings)
User Testimonials
CockroachDBGoogle Cloud Spanner
Likelihood to Recommend
Cockroach Labs
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Google
Google Cloud Spanner is suited for limitless horizontal scaling while maintaining strong consistency which needs to support ACID. NoSQL databases work in scaling but no ACID support. RDBMS support ACID, but horizontal scaling is not as great. The API it provides result in some limitations to related areas of the code, such as connection pools or database linking framework. So high # of connection pools can vary.
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Pros
Cockroach Labs
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Google
  • Super high availability
  • Scales automatically
  • High standard SLA
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Cons
Cockroach Labs
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Google
  • Support for Views
  • Support for more databases (schemas).
  • More index types that can be supported (Functional)
  • Backups (ie table/data backup) if data is deleted or truncate by accident.
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Alternatives Considered
Cockroach Labs
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Google
At that point, we were looking at something [that] can hold our relational database, [...] provide stable connection, and maintain high ACID transition. BigTable is for nonrelational database so it was out of our [sight] very quickly. BigQuery is a data warehouse that can hold huge amount of data but not ideal for transition. AWS RDS is [...] similar to Spanner but because most of our services are already on GCP, so we went with Spanner.
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Return on Investment
Cockroach Labs
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Google
  • Backups specifically if transactional data is deleted. Restoring made us lose time.
  • Sharding on Horizontal level was quick and easy. Deployment and increasing nodes is easy
  • Large dataset handling.
  • ACID compliance
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