G2 Vendor Directory

Google Cloud Spanner vs. YugabyteDB

A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.

MetricGoogle Cloud Spanner

by Google

YugabyteDB

by Yugabyte, Inc.

Overall rating4.24.5
Review count3665
Ease of use8.29.2
Ease of setup8.48.7
Quality of support8.89.6
Meets requirements8.99.3
NPS32.25806570.967742
Small Business27.8%41.3%
Mid-Market25.0%46.0%
Enterprise47.2%12.7%
Total page views174595
Total LLM citations5383,746

Google Cloud Spanner

The first horizontally scalable, strongly consistent, relational database service

Pros

    YugabyteDB

    YugabyteDB is AI-ready, turbocharged PostgreSQL for business-critical transactional applications. 100% open source, it offers built-in resilience, on-demand scaling, and more! YugabyteDB eliminates the tradeoffs you get with legacy databases by uniquely combining enterprise-grade RDBMS capabilities with the horizontal scalability and resilience of cloud native architectures. YugabyteDB delivers a single logical database that can span across any cloud (private, public or hybrid).

    Pros

    • Scalability
    • Reliability
    • High Availability
    • Performance
    • Availability
    • Ease of Use