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Alibaba Cloud ApsaraDB vs. Google Cloud Spanner

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
ApsaraDB
Score 7.0 out of 10
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Alibaba Cloud offers ApsaraDB, a range of scalable online database services that provide operation and maintenance of more than 90% of the mainstream open source and commercial databases (such as MySQL, SQL Server, and Redis). Also, ApsaraDB provides POLARDB performant databases. In addition, ApsaraDB offers HybridDB with 100TB of real-time data computational capabilities. ApsaraDB delivers a comprehensive solution that includes disaster recovery, backups, restoration, monitoring, and migration.N/A
Google Cloud Spanner
Score 5.6 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
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Offerings
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ApsaraDBGoogle Cloud Spanner
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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Features
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Database-as-a-Service
Comparison of Database-as-a-Service features of Product A and Product B
Alibaba Cloud ApsaraDB
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Ratings
Google Cloud Spanner
7.8
Ratings
11% below category average
Automatic software patching00 Ratings8.80 Ratings
Database scalability00 Ratings8.80 Ratings
Automated backups00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Database security provisions00 Ratings5.80 Ratings
Monitoring and metrics00 Ratings5.80 Ratings
Automatic host deployment00 Ratings7.60 Ratings
User Ratings
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Likelihood to Recommend
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7.4
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User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend
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If you have a large relational database and it is growing fast on daily basis, and if you have a strong need in ACID across all your clusters, and most importantly, if you need to maintain high availability in a large region, Google Cloud Spanner can be a very good choice.
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Pros
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  • Super high availability
  • Scales automatically
  • High standard SLA
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Cons
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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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Alternatives Considered
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Spanner scales quickly compared to Amazon RDS. Azure Database is about the same as well. MongoDB can scale to horizontal scalability, however, because Mongo doesn't support full ACID, Spanner comes into that aspect. GCP Cloud SQL not as scalable as Spanner. Spanner has more functionality than MongoDB and Amazon RDS & Azure Databases.
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Return on Investment
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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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