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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

    SingleStore

    Score8.2 out of 10
    N/ASingleStore aims to enable organizations to scale from one to one million customers, handling SQL, JSON, full text and vector workloads in one unified platform.

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    Google Cloud SpannerSingleStore
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    $0.69
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Google Cloud SpannerSingleStore
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
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    Community Pulse
    Google Cloud SpannerSingleStore
    Considered Both Products
    Google
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    SingleStore
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    97%
    Would buy again
    73 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
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    96%
    Delivers good value for the price
    65 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
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    97%
    Happy with the feature set
    73 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    96%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    55 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
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    95%
    Implementation went as expected
    63 Answers
    Features
    Google Cloud SpannerSingleStore
    Database-as-a-Service
    Comparison of Database-as-a-Service features of Google Cloud Spanner and SingleStore
    Feature
    Google Cloud Spanner
    7.8
    2 Ratings
    8% below category average
    SingleStore
    -
    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
    Relational Databases
    Comparison of Relational Databases features of Google Cloud Spanner and SingleStore
    Feature
    Google Cloud Spanner
    -
    Ratings
    SingleStore
    6.9
    3 Ratings
    16% below category average
    ACID compliance00 Ratings5.93 Ratings
    Database monitoring00 Ratings7.43 Ratings
    Database locking00 Ratings6.63 Ratings
    Encryption00 Ratings7.43 Ratings
    Disaster recovery00 Ratings5.93 Ratings
    Flexible deployment00 Ratings7.73 Ratings
    Multiple datatypes00 Ratings7.43 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    Google Cloud SpannerSingleStore
    Small Businesses
    MongoDB Atlas
    Score7.8 out of 10
    Amazon RDS
    Score8.1 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Azure Database
    Score8.8 out of 10
    SAP HANA Cloud
    Score8.9 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Google Cloud SQL
    Score8.7 out of 10
    SAP IQ
    Score5.4 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Google Cloud SpannerSingleStore
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.4
    (2 ratings)
    7.2
    (76 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (6 ratings)
    Usability
    -
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    7.8
    (12 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.4
    (3 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (50 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (10 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
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    8.2
    (2 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
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    8.2
    (3 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
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    8.2
    (3 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
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    8.2
    (3 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Google Cloud SpannerSingleStore
    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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    SingleStore
    Good for Applications needing instant insights on large, streaming datasets. Applications processing continuous data streams with low latency. When a multi-cloud, high-availability database is required When NOT to Use Small-scale applications with limited budgets Projects that do not require real-time analytics or distributed scaling Teams without experience in distributed databases and HTAP architectures.
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    Pros
    Google
    • Super high availability
    • Scales automatically
    • High standard SLA
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    SingleStore
    • Technical support is stellar -- far above and beyond anything I've experienced with any other company.
    • When we compared SingleStore to other databases two years ago, we found SingleStore performance to be far superior.
    • Pipeline data ingestion is exceptionally fast.
    • The ability to combine transactional and analytical workloads without compromising performance is very impressive.
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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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    SingleStore
    • It does not release a patch to have back porting; it just releases a new version and stops support; it's difficult to keep up to that pace.
    • Support engineers lack expertise, but they seem to be improving organically.
    • Lacks enterprise CDC capability: Change data capture (CDC) is a process that tracks and records changes made to data in a database and then delivers those changes to other systems in real time.
    • For enterprise-level backup & restore capability, we had to implement our model via Velero snapshot backup.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Google
    No answers on this topic
    SingleStore
    We haven't seen a faster relation database. Period. Which is why we are super happy customers and will for sure renew our license.
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    Usability
    Google
    No answers on this topic
    SingleStore
    [Until it is] supported on AWS ECS containers, I will reserve a higher rating for SingleStore. Right now it works well on EC2 and serves our current purpose, [but] would look forward to seeing SingleStore respond to our urge of feature in a shorter time period with high quality and security.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Google
    No answers on this topic
    SingleStore
    Solutions are based around a business needs and even when implementing such solution, real time insights are also followed through showing the updates the business are implementing while informing the end users as what is new with technology.
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    Performance
    Google
    No answers on this topic
    SingleStore
    SingleStore excels in real-time analytics and low-latency transactions, making it ideal for operational analytics and mixed workloads. Snowflake shines in batch analytics and data warehousing with strong scalability for large datasets. SingleStore offers faster data ingestion and query execution for real-time use cases, while Snowflake is better for complex analytical queries on historical data.
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    Support Rating
    Google
    No answers on this topic
    SingleStore
    The support deep dives into our most complexed queries and bizarre issues that sometimes only we get comparing to other clients. Our special workload (thousands of Kafka pipelines + high concurrency of queries). The response match to the priority of the request, P1 gets immediate return call. Missing features are treated, they become a client request and being added to the roadmap after internal consideration on all client needs and priority. Bugs are patched quite fast, depends on the impact and feasible temporary workarounds. There is no issue that we haven't got a proper answer, resolution or reasoning
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    Online Training
    Google
    No answers on this topic
    SingleStore
    Would prefer in person training but for online training, it's almost as good as in person
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    Implementation Rating
    Google
    No answers on this topic
    SingleStore
    We allowed 2-3 months for a thorough evaluation. We saw pretty quickly that we were likely to pick SingleStore, so we ported some of our stored procedures to SingleStore in order to take a deeper look. Two SingleStore people worked closely with us to ensure that we did not have any blocking problems. It all went remarkably smoothly.
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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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    SingleStore
    Greenplum is good in handling very large amount of data. Concurrency in Greenplum was a major problem. Features available in SingleStore like Pipelines and in memory features are not available in Greenplum. Gemfire was not scaling well like SingleStore. Support of both Greenplum and Gemfire was not good. Product team did not help us much like the ones in SingleStore who helped us getting started on our first cluster very fast.
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    Scalability
    Google
    No answers on this topic
    SingleStore
    Very reliable. Coming from mariadb, singlestore has made our application more reliable and faster!
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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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    SingleStore
    • As the overall performance and functionality were expanded, we are able to deliver our data much faster than before, which increases the demand for data.
    • Metadata is available in the platform by default, like metadata on the pipelines. Also, the information schema has lots of metadata, making it easy to load our assets to the data catalog.
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