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Azure Table Storage vs Google Cloud Bigtable

Azure Table Storage

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Google Cloud Bigtable

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FigureAzure Table StorageGoogle Cloud Bigtable
Price from—$0.03/mo
Free plan—Yes
Free trialYesYes
Open source——
Web—Yes
APIYesYes
Plans published110
Spec score · Wide-Column Databases7.4 (#9)7.8 (#6)
Spec score · Key-Value Databases7.5 (#16)8.0 (#8)
Free planNoNo

Plans

Azure Table Storage

  • Azure Table Storage pay-as-you-goPrice not published

Azure Table Storage pricing →

Google Cloud Bigtable

  • Enterprise$0.65 a month
  • Enterprise Plus$0.85 a month
  • Data BoostFree
  • HDD storage$0.03 a month
  • Standard backup storage$0.03 a month
  • Hot backup storage$0.12 a month
  • SSD storage$0.17 a month
  • In-memory tier$0.20 a month
  • Enterprise compute capacity$0.65 a month
  • Enterprise Plus compute capacity$0.85 a month

Google Cloud Bigtable pricing →

In their own words

Azure Table Storage

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Google Cloud Bigtable

Google Cloud Bigtable is a managed, low-latency NoSQL database for machine learning, operational analytics, and user-facing applications. It stores structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data in key-value and wide-column formats. SQL querying includes an API with more than 200 functions and support for aggregations, windowing, geospatial and JSON processing, and vector search. Compute scales horizontally, and instances can span up to eight regions with automatic replication between clusters. Google says multi-region instances offer 99.999% availability and protection against a regional failure. Integrations listed include Apache Spark, Hadoop, GKE, Dataflow, Dataproc, Vertex AI Vector Search, BigQuery, and LangChain. Bigtable provides Apache HBase and Cassandra APIs, plus migration tools for HBase, Cassandra, DynamoDB, and Aerospike. Security controls include IAM, customer-managed encryption keys, audit logging, and table-, column-, or row-level access control. Deployment is cloud-based. Google describes its capacity-based low-latency compute as more favorable for larger workloads than small applications. A 10-day trial is available subject to eligibility requirements.

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