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CockroachDB vs. Google Cloud Spanner

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
CockroachDB
Score 6.7 out of 10
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CockroachDB is a distributed SQL database from Cockroach Labs in New York. It is designed to give users resilient, horizontal scale across multiple clouds with always-on availability and data partitioned by location. CockroachDB scales horizontally without reconfiguration or need for a massive architectural overhaul. CockroachDB Core is open-source, while the Enterprise edition is not but includes additional features (e.g. distributed backup and restore, geo-partitioning, etc.). Finally,…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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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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Community Pulse
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Considered Both Products
CockroachDB

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Google Cloud Spanner
Anson Abraham | TrustRadius Reviewer
Anson Abraham
Data Czar
Chose Google Cloud Spanner
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 …
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Anonymous
Chose Google Cloud Spanner
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 …
Features
CockroachDBGoogle Cloud Spanner
Database-as-a-Service
Comparison of Database-as-a-Service features of Product A and Product B
CockroachDB
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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
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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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