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Can someone give a brief pros/cons between Cockroach DB Core and Google Cloud Spanner?
by misterbowfinger 9y ago
Can someone give a brief pros/cons between Cockroach DB Core and Google Cloud Spanner?
- bpicolo 9y agoOpen source vs not open source. Cockroach still in it's infancy vs spanner. I'm sure there are a variety of things here, but they mostly aim to solve a similar problem with a slightly different approach. Some of the big details relate to not requiring atomic clocks: https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/living-without-atomic-clocks/ https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/living-without-atomic-clo... Here's their comparison chart, though naturally it's biased for things-cockroach-does: https://www.cockroachlabs.com/docs/cockroachdb-in-comparison.html https://www.cockroachlabs.com/docs/cockroachdb-in-comparison... (I guess you can't write to Spanner with SQL? That seems like a big difference. No INSERT/UPDATE?)
- dianasaur323 9y ago[cockroachdb here] Thanks for the great response, bpicolo!
- greenshackle2 9y agoI'm confused. What's the difference between 'Yes' and 'Optional' in the 'Commercial Version' row on the comparison chart? To me 'Yes' suggests there is only a commercial version, but clearly that's not true for CockroachDB.
- dianasaur323 9y agoThanks for pointing that out! We will fix that to optional for us :)