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Ethan Lo
A stable and scalable relational database that ensures a return on investment for its users
With Google Cloud Spanner, the total cost of ownership or TCO is great. The tool doesn't have a lot of DevOps overhead costs related to... Read more →
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    8th
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    9.0
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    Overview

    Cloud Spanner is the first and only relational database service that is both strongly consistent and horizontally scalable. With Cloud Spanner you enjoy all the traditional benefits of a relational database: ACID transactions, relational schemas (and schema changes without downtime), SQL queries, high performance, and high availability. But unlike any other relational database service, Cloud Spanner scales horizontally, to hundreds or thousands of servers, so it can handle the highest of transactional workloads. With automatic scaling, synchronous data replication, and node redundancy, Cloud Spanner delivers up to 99.999% (five 9s) of availability for your mission critical applications. In fact, Google’s internal Spanner service has been handling millions of queries per second from many Google services for years.

    For enterprises that want to use YugabyteDB in cloud-native environments at scale, Yugabyte Platform is an offering that delivers a streamlined operational experience, as well as comprehensive support and services.

    Yugabyte Platform gives you the simplicity and support to deliver a private database-as-a-service (DBaaS) at scale. Use Yugabyte Platform to deploy YugabyteDB across any cloud anywhere in the world with a few clicks, simplify day 2 operations through automation, and get the services needed to realize business outcomes with the database.

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    Streak, Optiva, Mixpanel
    Plume, Xignite, Kroger, Narvar, Justuno
    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm19%
    Computer Software Company15%
    Retailer12%
    Manufacturing Company7%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm23%
    Computer Software Company14%
    Manufacturing Company14%
    Educational Organization12%
    Company Size
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business18%
    Midsize Enterprise11%
    Large Enterprise71%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business26%
    Midsize Enterprise6%
    Large Enterprise68%
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    Google Cloud Spanner is ranked 8th in Database as a Service with 4 reviews while Yugabyte Platform is ranked 11th in Database as a Service. Google Cloud Spanner is rated 9.0, while Yugabyte Platform is rated 0.0. The top reviewer of Google Cloud Spanner writes "A stable and scalable relational database that ensures a return on investment for its users". On the other hand, Google Cloud Spanner is most compared with Amazon RDS, MongoDB Atlas, Google Cloud SQL, Oracle Database as a Service and Oracle Exadata Cloud at Customer, whereas Yugabyte Platform is most compared with Amazon RDS, Google Cloud SQL and MongoDB Atlas.

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