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ArangoDB vs Google Cloud Spanner: What are the differences?
ArangoDB: A distributed open-source database with a flexible data model for documents, graphs, and key-values. A distributed free and open-source database with a flexible data model for documents, graphs, and key-values. Build high performance applications using a convenient SQL-like query language or JavaScript extensions; Google Cloud Spanner: Fully managed, scalable, relational database service for regional and global application data. It is a globally distributed database service that gives developers a production-ready storage solution. It provides key features such as global transactions, strongly consistent reads, and automatic multi-site replication and failover.
ArangoDB and Google Cloud Spanner belong to "Databases" category of the tech stack.
Some of the features offered by ArangoDB are:
- multi-model nosql db
- acid
- transactions
On the other hand, Google Cloud Spanner provides the following key features:
- Global transactions
- Strongly consistent reads
- Automatic multi-site replication
ArangoDB is an open source tool with 8.63K GitHub stars and 590 GitHub forks. Here's a link to ArangoDB's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of ArangoDB
- Grahps and documents in one DB37
- Intuitive and rich query language26
- Good documentation25
- Open source25
- Joins for collections21
- Foxx is great platform15
- Great out of the box web interface with API playground14
- Good driver support6
- Low maintenance efforts6
- Clustering6
- Easy microservice creation with foxx5
- You can write true backendless apps4
- Managed solution available2
- Performance0
Pros of Google Cloud Spanner
- Strongly consistent1
- Horizontal scaling1
- Scalable1
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Cons of ArangoDB
- Web ui has still room for improvement3
- No support for blueprints standard, using custom AQL2
