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DigitalOcean Kubernetes vs. Google Cloud Spanner

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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    DigitalOcean Kubernetes

    Score9 out of 10
    N/ADigitalOcean's Managed Kubernetes is designed for simple and cost effective container orchestration.N/A

    Google Cloud Spanner

    Score5.6 out of 10
    N/AGoogle Cloud Spanner is a cloud database-as-a-service product offered as a service on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).N/A
    Pricing
    DigitalOcean KubernetesGoogle Cloud Spanner
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    Pricing Offerings
    DigitalOcean KubernetesGoogle Cloud Spanner
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Features
    DigitalOcean KubernetesGoogle Cloud Spanner
    Database-as-a-Service
    Comparison of Database-as-a-Service features of DigitalOcean Kubernetes and Google Cloud Spanner
    Feature
    DigitalOcean Kubernetes
    -
    Ratings
    Google Cloud Spanner
    7.8
    2 Ratings
    8% 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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    DigitalOcean KubernetesGoogle Cloud Spanner
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    Score8 out of 10
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    Score7.8 out of 10
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    Score8.6 out of 10
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    Score8.8 out of 10
    Enterprises
    SUSE Rancher
    Score9.4 out of 10
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    Score8.7 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    DigitalOcean KubernetesGoogle Cloud Spanner
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.4
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    DigitalOcean KubernetesGoogle Cloud Spanner
    Likelihood to Recommend
    DigitalOcean
    DO Kubernetes is well-suited for: - deploying APIs - deploying workers - log collection and analysis (ie ELK stack) - deploying Helm charts and anything that can be mapped on to K8s concepts Less appropriate for anything requiring no public Internet access (ie VPC only). Less appropriate for anything requiring integration with the DO app platform via VPC, at the moment.
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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
    DigitalOcean
    • Hosted dashboard
    • Hosted container registry
    • Horizontal auto-scaling
    • LetsEncrypt SSL termination
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    Google
    • Super high availability
    • Scales automatically
    • High standard SLA
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    Cons
    DigitalOcean
    • Option for internal VPC-only deployment
    • Better integration with cloud firewall
    • Better integration with DO App platform via VPC
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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
    DigitalOcean
    DigitalOcean is the most affordable and straightforward of the hosted Kubernetes options we evaluated. All features that we require are supported without an excess of complication of extraneous features. Straightforward billing is also very important for us in comparison to the Big Three cloud hosts, which have very complicated billing practices. DigitalOcean also provides a platform with very little vendor lock-in.
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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
    DigitalOcean
    • Excellent uptime
    • Low cost for provided value
    • Good integration with the rest of the DO platform to provide additional value
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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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