🆚 Bigtable vs. PostgreSQL

Type

Database technology
Database technology

About

Bigtable is a low-latency, high-throughput NoSQL and key-value database.

PostgreSQL, also known as Postgres, is a powerful open-source object-relational database system that extends SQL with features for storing structured, semi-structured and geometric data.

It supports ACID transactions, multiversion concurrency control (MVCC), advanced indexing types (GiST, GIN, BRIN), native JSON/JSONB with indexing, extensibility through custom types and functions, full-text search, foreign data wrappers, and geospatial queries via PostGIS.

Headquarters

Mountain View, California, United States
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Website

Pricing

Free version ❌
Compute capacity$0.65/node/hour
Data storage
SSD$0.17/GB/month
HDD$0.026/GB/month
Free ✔️Open source

Categories

Databases › Rank #19
Databases › Rank #5

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

PostgreSQL database technology is 81 times more popular than Bigtable.
Total websites

Market share

Databases

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

PostgreSQL is more popular than Bigtable in all countries.
United States
France
Germany
United Kingdom
Belgium
Spain
Canada
Netherlands
China
India

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

PostgreSQL is more popular than Bigtable in all market segments.
Business
Online Shopping
Marketing/Merchandising
Internet Services
Education/Reference
Social Networking
Software/Hardware
Health
Finance/Banking
Forum/Bulletin Boards

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

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