Google Cloud Spanner vs. MongoDB Atlas

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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I would recommend MongoDB Atlas to every company who have a significant need in the NoSQL database and do not want to manage their infrastructure. Using MongoDB Atlas can significantly reduce your management time and cost, which saves valuable resources for other tasks. It also suits a smaller company as MongoDB Atlas scales up and down very quickly.

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• Super high availability
• Scales automatically
• High standard SLA

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• DB Provisioning.
• DB Management.

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• 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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• As an independent entity, MongoDB Atlas is not included in existing subscriptions from AWS or Azure, requiring an additional support plan and reliance on a third party.

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We love MongoDB support and have great relationship with them. When we decided to go with MongoDB Atlas, they sent a team of 5 to our company to discuss the process of setting up a Mongo cluster and walked us through. when we have questions, we create a ticket and they will respond very quickly

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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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MongoDB Atlas has been in the market for very long time and there are bunch of documentation, training and support for it. It also is specifically designed for the use case similar to our project and big companies in the market uses them for very high load which made us confident about our choice.

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• 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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• Improved our maintainability
• Reduced daily work compared to self-hosted solutions
• Reasonable pricing compared to value

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