We performed a comparison between Google Cloud Spanner and Google Cloud SQL based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Database as a Service solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."We can scale the solution if we need to."
"Google Cloud Spanner is stable."
"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."
"The application deployment in the cloud is the best feature of the infrastructure."
"Ease of management and the ability to oversee the statistics of your SQL."
"The most valuable features are that it's easy to use, simple, and user-friendly."
"It supports different databases, like Postgres and MySQL."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"My suggestion to anyone thinking about this solution is to jump into it head-first!"
"The setup was straightforward. Just a couple of clicks, and we were done."
"The implementation part of the product was easy."
"The solution is easy to use. I am impressed with the tool's features and functionality."
"The tool needs to improve horizontal scaling."
"The cost can be a bit high."
"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 want to improve the deployment of cameras and surveillance infrastructure."
"The customer support should be improved."
"The most challenging part is dealing with legacy data from your old systems and migrating it into the new setup, but once you've completed the data migration, it becomes quite convenient to use."
"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."
"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."
"The purging of the data could be better."
"The only thing that could be better is the pricing."
"For data analysis, the AI area of the product has certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
"Google's technical support is good, but they tend to never reopen a case and to send us snippets from the publicly available documentation. It's not as helpful as you would expect, not just for Google Cloud SQL but for all of Google Cloud products."
Google Cloud Spanner is ranked 8th in Database as a Service with 4 reviews while Google Cloud SQL is ranked 4th in Database as a Service with 16 reviews. Google Cloud Spanner is rated 9.0, while Google Cloud SQL is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Google Cloud Spanner writes "A stable and scalable relational database that ensures a return on investment for its users". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Google Cloud SQL writes "An easy-to-use solution with good features and functionality ". Google Cloud Spanner is most compared with Amazon RDS, Oracle Database as a Service, MongoDB Atlas, Oracle Exadata Cloud at Customer and SQL Azure, whereas Google Cloud SQL is most compared with Amazon RDS, SQL Azure, MongoDB Atlas, Oracle Database as a Service and Oracle Exadata Cloud at Customer. See our Google Cloud SQL vs. Google Cloud Spanner report.
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