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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    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

    kdb+

    Score9 out of 10
    N/Akdb+ is a time series database from kx headquartered in Palo Alto, California, a division of First Derivatives.N/A
    Pricing
    Google Cloud Spannerkdb+
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Google Cloud Spannerkdb+
    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
    Google Cloud Spannerkdb+
    Database-as-a-Service
    Comparison of Database-as-a-Service features of Google Cloud Spanner and kdb+
    Feature
    Google Cloud Spanner
    7.8
    2 Ratings
    8% below category average
    kdb+
    -
    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 Spannerkdb+
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    Score7.8 out of 10
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    Score9 out of 10
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    Azure Database
    Score8.8 out of 10
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    Enterprises
    Google Cloud SQL
    Score8.7 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Google Cloud Spannerkdb+
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.4
    (2 ratings)
    9.0
    (5 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    3.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Google Cloud Spannerkdb+
    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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    Kx
    kdb is well suited for real time tick data and time series analytics.
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    Pros
    Google
    • Super high availability
    • Scales automatically
    • High standard SLA
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    Kx
    • Time series analysis. The built-in vector operations are extremely fast. Also with the q language you can code up any customized analytical ideas quickly.
    • The database are all file based, very easy to maintain.
    • Very solid and fast interface to websocket, so you can interface with javascript easily.
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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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    Kx
    • Run time error message readability, particularly for new users.
    • Backwards compatibility between versions.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Google
    No answers on this topic
    Kx
    switching costs
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    Usability
    Google
    No answers on this topic
    Kx
    its ok
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    Support Rating
    Google
    No answers on this topic
    Kx
    We don't use it.
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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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    Kx
    Python is very commonly used for large data analysis and in general is much easier to pickup than kdb+. The biggest drawback of kdb+ is the learning curve.
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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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    Kx
    • It perfectly solves most of our real time tick data needs.
    • Finding good kdb resources is slightly difficult. Also new people trying to learn kdb experience a relatively longer learning curve.
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