Google Cloud Spanner comparisons
Google Cloud Spanner is compared head-to-head with TiDB Cloud, CockroachDB Cloud and Oracle Globally Distributed AI Database and more: 7 head-to-heads in Distributed SQL Databases, each with the specs and prices we checked.
Google Cloud Spanner head-to-head
- Google Cloud Spanner vs TiDB Cloud
- Google Cloud Spanner vs CockroachDB Cloud
- Google Cloud Spanner vs Oracle Globally Distributed AI Database
- Google Cloud Spanner vs OceanBase Database
- Google Cloud Spanner vs YDB
- Google Cloud Spanner vs PolarDB-X
- Google Cloud Spanner vs Huawei GaussDB
Google Cloud Spanner vs each of them
| # | Tool | Free plan | Paid from | Deployment model | MySQL compatibility | Horizontal scaling | Multi-region deployment | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Google Cloud Spanner | No | Both | No | Yes | Yes | 9.4 | |
| 2 | TiDB Cloud | Yes | Cloud | Yes | Yes | Yes | 9.2 | |
| 3 | CockroachDB Cloud | No | $0.06/unit usage-based | 9.0 | ||||
| 4 | Oracle Globally Distributed AI Database | Both | Yes | Yes | 8.8 | |||
| 5 | OceanBase Database | Yes | Both | Yes | Yes | Yes | 8.7 | |
| 6 | YDB | Free | Both | Yes | Yes | 8.6 | ||
| 7 | PolarDB-X | Both | Yes | Yes | Yes | 8.5 | ||
| 8 | Huawei GaussDB | Cloud | Yes | Yes | Yes | 8.4 |
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