Google Cloud Spanner vs. InfluxDB

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Google Cloud Spanner
Score 6.3 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
InfluxDB
Score 8.5 out of 10
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The InfluxDB is a time series database from InfluxData headquartered in San Francisco. As an observability solution, it is designed to provide real-time visibility into stacks, sensors and systems. It is available open source, via the Cloud as a DBaaS option, or through an Enterprise subscription.N/A
Pricing
Google Cloud SpannerInfluxDB
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Offerings
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Google Cloud SpannerInfluxDB
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
Google Cloud SpannerInfluxDB
Considered Both Products
Google Cloud Spanner

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InfluxDB
Chose InfluxDB
We have looked around to find different options we had when we first started to move to cloud. At that time, the options we had is Google Cloud BigTable and InfluxDB. But quickly we realized that InfluxDB is the database specialized in time series database and performs better …
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Features
Google Cloud SpannerInfluxDB
Database-as-a-Service
Comparison of Database-as-a-Service features of Product A and Product B
Google Cloud Spanner
7.8
2 Ratings
11% below category average
InfluxDB
-
Ratings
Automatic software patching8.82 Ratings00 Ratings
Database scalability8.82 Ratings00 Ratings
Automated backups10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Database security provisions5.82 Ratings00 Ratings
Monitoring and metrics5.82 Ratings00 Ratings
Automatic host deployment7.62 Ratings00 Ratings
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Google Cloud SpannerInfluxDB
Small Businesses
SingleStore
SingleStore
Score 9.7 out of 10

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Medium-sized Companies
SingleStore
SingleStore
Score 9.7 out of 10

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Enterprises
SingleStore
SingleStore
Score 9.7 out of 10

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User Ratings
Google Cloud SpannerInfluxDB
Likelihood to Recommend
7.4
(2 ratings)
9.0
(4 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(2 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Google Cloud SpannerInfluxDB
Likelihood to Recommend
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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InfluxData
InfluxDB is very good at storing monitoring metrics (e.g. performance data). InfluxDB is not the right choice if you need to store other data types (like plain text, data relations etc.).
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Pros
Google
  • Super high availability
  • Scales automatically
  • High standard SLA
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InfluxData
  • Perfect handling telemetry data.
  • Low latency, near real time.
  • SQL-like language makes it easier to query.
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Cons
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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InfluxData
  • GUI based administrator console
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Likelihood to Renew
Google
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InfluxData
InfluxDB is a near perfect product for time series database engines. The relatively small list of cons are heavily outweighed by it's ability to just work and be a very flexible and powerful database engine. The community and support provided by the corporation are the only areas I have little experience.
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Support Rating
Google
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InfluxData
We have worked with the InfluxDB support team a few times so far and it has been positive. Issues submitted are worked on promptly and we have good feedback.
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Alternatives Considered
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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InfluxData
To be honest, I didn't look at alternatives since InfluxDB performs very well if you can oversee the lack of security and HA features. But for all challenges, there is an easy solution which brings you forward (e.g. read load balancing can be achieved by using a common HTTPS load balancer).
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Return on Investment
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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InfluxData
  • Provided us a time series DB.
  • With the SQL-like language, it is very easy to learn.
  • Empowered us to keep track of our events.
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