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BigchainDB vs Google Cloud Spanner

BigchainDB

bigchaindb.com

Google Cloud Spanner

cloud.google.com

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FigureBigchainDBGoogle Cloud Spanner
Price from——
Free plan——
Free trial—Yes
Open source——
Web—Yes
LinuxYesYes
API—Yes
Self-hosted—Yes
Plans published07
Spec score · Distributed SQL Databases5.9 (#20)8.3 (#10)

Plans

BigchainDB

No plans published.

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Google Cloud Spanner

  • StandardPrice not published
  • EnterprisePrice not published
  • Enterprise PlusPrice not published
  • Spanner free trial instanceFree
  • Standard edition compute$0.03 a month
  • Enterprise edition compute$0.04 a month
  • Enterprise Plus edition compute$0.06 a month

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In their own words

BigchainDB

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Google Cloud Spanner

Google Cloud Spanner is a paid database service combining relational, graph, key-value, and search capabilities. It provides Strong-ACID transactions ordered with TrueTime, horizontal read and write scaling, automatic sharding, and geo-partitioning. Configurations include single-region, dual-region, and multi-region deployments, with Google describing availability up to 99.999%. Spanner Graph, vector search, and built-in full-text search are included. A columnar engine supports ad hoc analytics on live data, and BigQuery integration enables federated queries. Spanner Omni is downloadable for on-premises, cross-cloud, or laptop deployment. Client libraries cover C++, C#, Go, Java, Node.js, PHP, Python, and Ruby. Integrations include Cloud Run, Dataflow, Cloud Storage, Compute Engine, GKE, Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, and Looker. Security includes encryption in transit and identity and access controls. PostgreSQL compatibility, horizontal scaling, multi-region deployment, geo-partitioning, and HTAP workloads are listed.

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