CockroachDB vs. Google Cloud Spanner

CockroachDB

3 Reviews and Ratings

Google Cloud Spanner

13 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
CockroachDB	Score6.7 out of 10	N/A	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	Score5.6 out of 10	N/A	Google Cloud Spanner is a cloud database-as-a-service product offered as a service on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).	N/A

Pricing

CockroachDB

Google Cloud Spanner

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Pricing Offerings
CockroachDB	Google Cloud Spanner
Free Trial
No	No
Free/Freemium Version
Yes	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

No setup fee

No setup fee

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Features

CockroachDB

Google Cloud Spanner

Comparison of Database-as-a-Service features of CockroachDB and Google Cloud Spanner
Feature	CockroachDB - Ratings	Google Cloud Spanner 7.8 2 Ratings 10% below category average
Automatic software patching	00 Ratings	8.82 Ratings
Database scalability	00 Ratings	8.82 Ratings
Automated backups	00 Ratings	10.01 Ratings
Database security provisions	00 Ratings	5.82 Ratings
Monitoring and metrics	00 Ratings	5.82 Ratings
Automatic host deployment	00 Ratings	7.62 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	CockroachDB	Google Cloud Spanner
Small Businesses	SingleStore Score7.5 out of 10	MongoDB Atlas Score8.2 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	SAP HANA Cloud Score8.9 out of 10	Azure Database Score9.8 out of 10
Enterprises	SAP IQ Score10 out of 10	Google BigQuery Score8.4 out of 10
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User Ratings
	CockroachDB	Google Cloud Spanner
Likelihood to Recommend	- (0 ratings)	7.4 (2 ratings)

User Testimonials
	CockroachDB	Google Cloud Spanner
Likelihood to Recommend	Cockroach Labs No answers on this topic	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. Incentivized Anson Abraham Data Czar Read full review
Pros	Cockroach Labs No answers on this topic	Google Super high availability Scales automatically High standard SLA Incentivized Verified User Read full review
Cons	Cockroach Labs No answers on this topic	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. Incentivized Anson Abraham Data Czar Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Cockroach Labs No answers on this topic	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. Incentivized Verified User Read full review
Return on Investment	Cockroach Labs No answers on this topic	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 Incentivized Anson Abraham Data Czar Read full review
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