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Galera Cluster vs Google Cloud Spanner: What are the differences?
What is Galera Cluster? A Multi-Master Cluster based on synchronous replication for MySQL. It’s an easy-to-use, high-availability solution, which provides high system up-time, no data loss and scalability for future growth. You can Keep it up and running 24/7. Putting our expertise to use will help you avoid trial and error.
What is 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.
Galera Cluster belongs to "Database Cluster Management" category of the tech stack, while Google Cloud Spanner can be primarily classified under "Databases".
Some of the features offered by Galera Cluster are:
- True Multi-master Read and write to any node at any time
- Synchronous Replication No slave lag, no data is lost at node crash
- Tightly Coupled All nodes hold the same state
On the other hand, Google Cloud Spanner provides the following key features:
- Global transactions
- Strongly consistent reads
- Automatic multi-site replication
Galera Cluster is an open source tool with 287 GitHub stars and 119 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Galera Cluster's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of Galera Cluster
Pros of Google Cloud Spanner
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- Horizontal scaling1
- Scalable1