🆚 Bigtable vs. RocksDB

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

📈 Bigtable is twice as popular as RocksDB.
🌍 Bigtable is more popular in all countries.

Bigtable

RocksDB

Type

Database technology

About

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

RocksDB is an embeddable, persistent key-value store that is optimized for fast, low-latency storage, such as flash drives and high-speed disk drives.

Headquarters

Mountain View, California, United States

Menlo Park, California, United States

Website

cloud.google.com/bigtable

rocksdb.org #221,000

Pricing

Free version ❌

Compute capacity$0.65/node/hour

Data storageSSD$0.17/GB/month
HDD$0.026/GB/month

Free ✔️Open source

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

Bigtable database technology is 1.7 times more popular than RocksDB.

Total websites

Market share

Databases

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Bigtable is more popular than RocksDB in all countries.

United States

Germany

Japan

Italy

Sweden

France

United Kingdom

Singapore

Argentina

Brazil

Awards

🔥 11st most popular in the United States in the Databases category.

🔥 16th most popular in the United States in the Databases category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Bigtable is more popular among sites focused on Internet services, business, and finance and banking, while RocksDB is more commonly used on portal sites, travel, and search engines sites.

Internet Services

Portal Sites

Business

Finance/Banking

Travel

Search Engines

Streaming Media

Blogs/Wiki

Web Phone

Professional Networking