We performed a comparison between Amazon RDS, Google Cloud Spanner, and Google Cloud SQL based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft, MongoDB and others in Database as a Service."Stability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten...Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten."
"Amazon RDS is easy to manage, and it has customizable performance, high availability, and duality."
"The solution’s scalability, usability, and availability are valuable to us."
"Being able to change the size of an RDS MySQL instance is amazing."
"The IT is easy to set up, which is the best."
"I recommend RDS because it makes your life super easy."
"It is stable, scalable, and easy to deploy."
"Amazon RDS is easy to maintain and easy to deploy."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is its scalability. Scalability comes with two options, among which Google Cloud Spanner can scale horizontally, compared to other relational databases that scale vertically."
"We can scale the solution if we need to."
"Google Cloud Spanner is stable."
"The application deployment in the cloud is the best feature of the infrastructure."
"What I like the most about Google Cloud SQL is that it handles the management, which allows us to concentrate on our applications."
"This is a stable solution and offers good performance."
"Ease of management and the ability to oversee the statistics of your SQL."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"Its most valuable feature is that it's scalable. I can start off with a base of a lot of data and move as much as I want and it's the same as if asked to do a lot of infrastructure changes."
"I found its storage and security to be the most valuable. It was a good experience. It is also very stable and scalable, and its support is perfect."
"The most valuable features are that it's easy to use, simple, and user-friendly."
"It is not the cool features that I find valuable, it is the stability of Google Cloud Platform."
"With my limited experience, I have noticed that documentation management could be improved. It could be better."
"The Performance Monitor they have is a little clanky, at least in regards to the UI."
"One of the challenges of AWS RDS is that it doesn't support performance insight. So we need to write our own script or use third-party tools."
"I also don't think it's very scalable."
"I like using Amazon RDS because it offers quick operations for me. However, there are times when understanding how to use some of the services can be challenging, even with documentation. If I could add a feature, I'd improve navigation for related services."
"Some of the features will not be there. For example, some on-premises things we want to set up will not be supported there. There are some challenges that they are fixing."
"Sometimes the interface has many moving parts, which is a concern."
"It would be better if it integrated seamlessly with Microsoft products. Our clients use the Microsoft Tally application server. We already tried to create a reputation from, for example, an on-premises environment from our client to Amazon RDS using Microsoft Tally server, and we couldn't do that because we didn't have a strong user in RDS. We couldn't create a reputation from an on-premises environment from the Microsoft Tally server to RDS. I think that it would be a good implementation, and it would help us with this case."
"The cost can be a bit high."
"I want to improve the deployment of cameras and surveillance infrastructure."
"The tool needs to improve horizontal scaling."
"Google came up with something called Cloud Spanner Emulator, which fails to work like the real product if I want to develop some code and run a database locally on my machine."
"I am yet to explore a lot of features that are present in this solution. However, it would be good if more documentation is available for this solution. This would help us in preparing for the certification exam and understand it better. Currently, we don't have much documentation. We do the labs for 20 or 25 minutes, but we can't capture and download anything."
"In the case of Google, they need to work on a more easy interface for users."
"The most vulnerable problem with Google SQL is that while you can customize your access control list, it provides you with a public IP address."
"To create a seamless data integration, the title integration of these databases with the data integration platforms is essential. This is what we would like to have in a future release."
"I would like to see better availability of the product in different regions. It should also improve the security with encryption."
"The monitoring part could be better."
"The purging of the data could be better."
"It is hard to do logging with the solution."
