Google Cloud Spanner vs. RavenDB

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
RavenDB
Score 8.2 out of 10
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RavenDB is a NoSQL Document Database that is fully transactional (ACID) across the database and throughout clusters. It is presented as an easy to use all-in-one database that minimizes the need for third party addons, tools, or support to boost developer productivity and get projects into production fast. Users can setup and secure a data cluster deploy in the cloud, on…N/A
Pricing
Google Cloud SpannerRavenDB
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Google Cloud SpannerRavenDB
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Top Pros
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Features
Google Cloud SpannerRavenDB
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
RavenDB
-
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
NoSQL Databases
Comparison of NoSQL Databases features of Product A and Product B
Google Cloud Spanner
-
Ratings
RavenDB
9.1
24 Ratings
4% above category average
Performance00 Ratings9.024 Ratings
Availability00 Ratings8.923 Ratings
Concurrency00 Ratings8.023 Ratings
Security00 Ratings9.223 Ratings
Scalability00 Ratings9.623 Ratings
Data model flexibility00 Ratings9.924 Ratings
Deployment model flexibility00 Ratings9.423 Ratings
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Google Cloud SpannerRavenDB
Small Businesses
SingleStore
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Score 9.8 out of 10
IBM Cloudant
IBM Cloudant
Score 8.3 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
SingleStore
SingleStore
Score 9.8 out of 10
IBM Cloudant
IBM Cloudant
Score 8.3 out of 10
Enterprises
SingleStore
SingleStore
Score 9.8 out of 10
IBM Cloudant
IBM Cloudant
Score 8.3 out of 10
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User Ratings
Google Cloud SpannerRavenDB
Likelihood to Recommend
7.4
(2 ratings)
8.2
(24 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
9.5
(5 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
8.3
(20 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(21 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
7.3
(1 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Google Cloud SpannerRavenDB
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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Hibernating Rhinos
If you're a.NET developer searching for a system other than SQL Server for business assessment, then you must try RavenDB. RavenDB is a fantastic document-oriented system that has been specifically developed to work with all.NET or Windows systems. Developers are continually working on such systems to eliminate their flaws while also providing a few benefits. We must refresh ourselves on a regular basis since the free software system is like an open area where anybody may stand up with a brilliant solution to the issue. RavenDB is absolutely worth a look
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Pros
Google
  • Super high availability
  • Scales automatically
  • High standard SLA
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Hibernating Rhinos
  • Document Database - no Object-Relational Impedance Mismatch
  • ACID support that is optimized for performance
  • Can be easily integrated into automated tests (unit tests)
  • Easily configurable via C# code
  • Comes directly with RavenStudio - no SSMS or SQL Developer required
  • In general low footprint when it comes to memory and disk consumption
  • Useful safety nets for new developers - e.g. by default an exception is thrown when you make too many requests within a session
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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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Hibernating Rhinos
  • The documentation is very good, but it's sometimes hard to find the topic I'm looking for.
  • Updating references is done manually. It would be nice if there was a feature to help with that. I'm not sure that's even possible though.
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Likelihood to Renew
Google
No answers on this topic
Hibernating Rhinos
We've had an excellent experience using RavenDB. Internally we are testing the newer features in 5.0 such as time series, which will effect the con specified previously dependent on the real world performance. We foresee that BattleCrate will continue to use RavenDB as we grow.
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Usability
Google
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Hibernating Rhinos
Really good .NET client that is very easy to use. The management studio is excellent and puts anything that Microsoft or Oracle have to shame. Very quick to develop with once the complexity hurdle has been overcome. Initially using it can be a bit painful until you fully grasp the event sourced nature of the indexing.
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Support Rating
Google
No answers on this topic
Hibernating Rhinos
The support is really fast and flexible. Since one single working day, we got a response to our first request, only 4 days later we got a technical demonstration for our complete developer team to get in touch with raven and its performance. Also during our development, we got a quick response to questions.
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Implementation Rating
Google
No answers on this topic
Hibernating Rhinos
RavenFS changed along the way and made us change the codes.
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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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Hibernating Rhinos
The given alternatives are also powerful and really good noSQL databases but the highest availability of RavenDB allows me/us to know it a lot better. RavenDB is encrypted by default wherever we use it in production and it has a high level of documents compression.
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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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Hibernating Rhinos
  • RavenDB has saved my customers a lot of money with their cloud services' tiered model. The database is able to grow with the project/company and can start out small at a low cost.
  • RavenDB is free for three nodes and three CPUs, which makes it great for development scenarios. You're able to start rapidly building applications without having to worry about licensing.
  • Scaling out has allowed us to use three small cloud servers when starting out and get the performance and throughput of a single larger server.
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