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    Google Cloud Bigtable

    Score9.8 out of 10
    N/AGoogle's Cloud Bigtable is a fully managed, scalable NoSQL database service for large analytical and operational workloads with up to 99.999% availability.

    $0.03

    per month

    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
    Google Cloud BigtableGoogle Cloud Spanner
    Editions & Modules
    Backup Storage
    $0.026
    per month per GB
    HDD storage
    $0.026
    per month per GB
    SSD storage
    $0.17
    per month per GB
    Nodes
    $0.65/hour
    per month per node (minimum 1 nodes)
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Google Cloud BigtableGoogle 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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    Google Cloud BigtableGoogle Cloud Spanner
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    Google
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    Google
    Chose Google Cloud Spanner
    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 …
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    Google Cloud BigtableGoogle Cloud Spanner
    Database-as-a-Service
    Comparison of Database-as-a-Service features of Google Cloud Bigtable and Google Cloud Spanner
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    Google Cloud Bigtable
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    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
    Best Alternatives
    Google Cloud BigtableGoogle Cloud Spanner
    Small Businesses
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    MongoDB Atlas
    Score7.8 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    HBase
    Score7.3 out of 10
    Azure Database
    Score8.8 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Cassandra
    Score9 out of 10
    Google Cloud SQL
    Score8.7 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Google Cloud BigtableGoogle Cloud Spanner
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    7.4
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    User Testimonials
    Google Cloud BigtableGoogle Cloud Spanner
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Google
    It works great for any use case that requires high throughput for reads and writes, for key-value kinda data. This enables you to use it for usecases where you need to retain data for a long term or even short term but then use it in pipelines to enrich data, sync states between backend and frontend or to quickly lookup say a user.
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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
    Google
    • Analytics: is at Google's heart. No on can beat Google in this space and BigTable is one of its implementation of this. The insights you gain from BigTable are simply usable in your day to day activities and can help you make real difference.
    • Speed: Processing TBs and PBs of data under minutes needs real efficient platform which is capable of doing much more than just processing data. All this data cannot be processed by a single machine, but rather huge pairs of machines working in conjuction with each other. BigTable's implementation is one of the finest and allows you achieve great speeds!
    • Interface: is great. Google has segregated required task under logically placed buttons which takes no time by users to understand and get habituated.
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    Google
    • Super high availability
    • Scales automatically
    • High standard SLA
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    Cons
    Google
    • Global replication
    • Complete SQL support
    • Size limit of 1MB
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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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    Usability
    Google
    For big IT firms like us, data is very important and it only holds its value if it can make sense to us. Therefore, Bigtable's usability is priceless when it comes to decision making based on data.
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    Google
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    Support Rating
    Google
    Google provides premium support services for BigTable which is absolutely blazing fast similar to Bigtable's performance.
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    Google
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    Alternatives Considered
    Google
    As a hosted solution, that can be managed easily from the Google cloud platform, it enables the teams to think about business use cases vs thinking about the management of the database itself. It is easily to scale it up when you need more throughput or storage. This keeps the developers and the product folks happy.
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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
    Google
    • Building new features that can leverage storage on the edge
    • Realtime decision making
    • Data enrichment
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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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