Google Cloud Spanner vs. Spark SQL
A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.
| Metric | Google Cloud Spanner | Spark SQL |
|---|---|---|
| Overall rating | 4.2 | 4.6 |
| Review count | 36 | 46 |
| Ease of use | 8.2 | 9.1 |
| Ease of setup | 8.4 | 9.0 |
| Quality of support | 8.8 | 8.6 |
| Meets requirements | 8.9 | 9.0 |
| NPS | 32.258065 | 69.565217 |
| Small Business | 27.8% | 26.1% |
| Mid-Market | 25.0% | 19.6% |
| Enterprise | 47.2% | 54.3% |
| Total page views | 174 | 35 |
| Total LLM citations | 538 | 20 |
Google Cloud Spanner
The first horizontally scalable, strongly consistent, relational database service
Spark SQL
Spark SQL lets you query structured data inside Spark programs, using either SQL or a familiar DataFrame API. Usable in Java, Scala, Python and R.