Google Cloud Spanner

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YugabyteDB’s storage and replication architecture is similar to that of Google Cloud Spanner which is also a CP database with high write availability. While Google Cloud Spanner leverages Google’s proprietary (and expensive) network infrastructure, YugabyteDB is designed work on commodity infrastructure used by most enterprise users.

A few blogs that highlight how YugabyteDB differs from Google Cloud Spanner are below.

• Implementing Distributed Transactions the Google Way: Percolator vs. Spanner

• Practical Tradeoffs in Google Cloud Spanner, Azure Cosmos DB and YugabyteDB

• New to Google Cloud Databases? 5 Areas of Confusion That You Better Be Aware of