Actian Zen vs. Google Cloud Spanner
A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.
| Metric | Actian Zen | Google Cloud Spanner |
|---|---|---|
| Overall rating | 4.3 | 4.2 |
| Review count | 12 | 36 |
| Ease of use | 7.1 | 8.2 |
| Ease of setup | 9.3 | 8.4 |
| Quality of support | 7.6 | 8.8 |
| Meets requirements | 8.6 | 8.9 |
| NPS | 58.333333 | 32.258065 |
| Small Business | 25.0% | 27.8% |
| Mid-Market | 50.0% | 25.0% |
| Enterprise | 25.0% | 47.2% |
| Total page views | 220 | 174 |
| Total LLM citations | 473 | 538 |
Actian Zen
Actian Zen is a NoSQL and SQL (fully ANSI compliant) embedded database that runs on Windows, Linux, Android, iOS, macOS, in VMs and Containers with AES 256-bit encryption. Version footprints range from 5MB (client only) to 50 MB (embedded client-server) to 200MB (client-server, SaaS-ready) and support up to 64TB tables. NoETL between versions. Use C/C++/C#, Java, JavaScript, Python, Delphi, or Basic and connect to any ODBC/JDBC, ASP.Net source or destination.
Google Cloud Spanner
The first horizontally scalable, strongly consistent, relational database service