Amazon Keyspaces
6.4#4 in wide-column databasesFree planFree planWebAPI
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Google Cloud Bigtable
6.8#3 in wide-column databasesFrom $0.03 a monthFree planWebAPI
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| Fact | Amazon Keyspaces | Google Cloud Bigtable |
|---|---|---|
| Availability | Multi-Region deployments offer up to 99.999% availability, and table data is replicated three times across multiple Availability Zones. | Google says multi-region instances offer 99.999% availability and protection against a regional failure. |
| Free plan | No | No |
| Integrations | The service integrates with Amazon CloudWatch for performance metrics and supports streaming changes to Amazon OpenSearch Service. | The product page lists integrations with Apache Spark, Hadoop, GKE, Dataflow, Dataproc, Vertex AI Vector Search, BigQuery, and LangChain. |
| Product | Amazon Keyspaces is a scalable, highly available, managed Apache Cassandra-compatible database service. | Bigtable is a fully managed, low-latency NoSQL database service for machine learning, operational analytics, and user-facing applications. |
| Security | Customer data is encrypted at rest by default, with AWS-owned or customer-managed keys available through AWS Key Management Service. | Security controls include customer-managed encryption keys with Cloud External Key Manager support, IAM, VPC Service Controls, Access Transparency, Access Approval, audit logging, and table-, column-, or row-level access control. |
Amazon Keyspaces plans
- On-demand capacity—
- Provisioned capacity—
- AWS Free TierFree
- Database Savings Plans—
- Amazon Keyspaces — on-demand capacityPriced on request
- Amazon Keyspaces — provisioned capacityPriced on request
Google Cloud Bigtable plans
- Enterprise$0.65 a month
- Enterprise Plus$0.85 a month
- Data BoostFree
- Standard backup storage$0.03 a month
- HDD storage$0.03 a month
- Hot backup storage$0.12 a month
Pick Amazon Keyspaces if…
It suits teams building Cassandra-compatible applications, including low-latency services, IoT data systems, game player profiles, or time-series workloads. It may also fit teams migrating Cassandra workloads that want a managed service.
Pick Google Cloud Bigtable if…
Bigtable may fit teams handling larger low-latency workloads for machine learning, analytics, or user-facing applications. Its multi-region setup and database migration options may also suit teams with those needs.