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We performed a comparison between Google Cloud Spanner and Oracle Database as a Service 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.
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Pros
"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.""We can scale the solution if we need to.""Google Cloud Spanner is stable."

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"It is a good solution and has a large community.""What I like about Oracle Database as a Service is that it has excellent stability, and the development is effortless. I also like the enhanced queries in Oracle Database as a Service best.""The most valuable feature of Oracle Database as a Service is the object types. The object types are not available in other databases, such as SQL and Postgres. Additionally, the security is very good.""The most valuable aspect of the solution is its security, performance, and availability.""What I found most valuable about Oracle Database as a Service is its fast transactions and materialized views.""The Oracle Multitenant feature of 12c is awesome. This feature enables us to consolidate disparate databases under one container database and eases manageability of the databases. It also allows us to scale.""When we want more information on something that we are using, it is easy to find related topics on the internet.""I will rate this solution a nine out of ten. We have been using this solution for the past ten years. We will continue the partnership. I do not expect to see any further integration of the tool with our software. I will recommend this tool to those with a large database."

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Cons
"The cost can be a bit high.""I want to improve the deployment of cameras and surveillance infrastructure.""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.""The tool needs to improve horizontal scaling."

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"Oracle DBaaS could be compatible with more platforms.""Earlier, the interface was continuously changing. Features you used would be moved somewhere else, so it was a little challenging to navigate, but now I think it's stable.""The installation process requires improvement as it can be quite complex.""An 8GB download for software is far too big. Nowadays it should be possible to simply use RPM packages on Linux/Unix.""Oracle Database as a Service could improve the performance when monitoring.""Oracle Database as a Service could improve by reducing the price.""When migrating to a different instance, the internal machine learning is lost.""In the next release, I would like to see a framework for memory management."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "It is expensive."
  • "Google Cloud Spanner is an expensive solution."
  • "The solution is expensive."
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  • "The licensing is a nightmare. Tons of options which need to be licensed individually, and no real offering for VMware or other Hypervisors."
  • "There should be a standard way to license the database in a virtual environment (e.g. VMware) and there should be a low-end version (like Standard Edition One) again."
  • "The price depends on the solution you choose: standard, enterprise, or high performance. For example, enterprise can start between 0.4 an hour up to 1,800. Additional fees also depends on what package you choose. Your feels will be different if you choose the standard, enterprise, high performance, or extreme package. You will pay in relation to what option you ask for. The price is very good if you compare it to other databases."
  • "The pricing may seem expensive, but the value corresponds to the quality of the product."
  • "The pricing is a little bit expensive."
  • "The price of Oracle Database as a Service could be better."
  • "I do not know firsthand about the price of Oracle Database as a Service, but it is known that Oracle solutions tend to be priced higher than competitors."
  • "For on-premises, a perpetual license is a standard $17,500 plus 22% for one year of support."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:Google Cloud Spanner has all the features of a traditional relational database, including schemas, SQL queries, ACID transactions, and provides excellent integration and monitoring tools as well as… more »
    Top Answer:The solution is scalable, has support & right incident, and allows easy data recovery.
    Top Answer:It is notably expensive when compared to the features offered by other alternatives. However, Oracle offers specific and unique capabilities. I would rate it ten out of ten in terms of cost.
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    Also Known As
    Google Spanner
    Oracle DBaaS, Oracle Database Cloud
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    Overview

    Cloud Spanner is the first and only relational database service that is both strongly consistent and horizontally scalable. With Cloud Spanner you enjoy all the traditional benefits of a relational database: ACID transactions, relational schemas (and schema changes without downtime), SQL queries, high performance, and high availability. But unlike any other relational database service, Cloud Spanner scales horizontally, to hundreds or thousands of servers, so it can handle the highest of transactional workloads. With automatic scaling, synchronous data replication, and node redundancy, Cloud Spanner delivers up to 99.999% (five 9s) of availability for your mission critical applications. In fact, Google’s internal Spanner service has been handling millions of queries per second from many Google services for years.

    Oracle Database Cloud Service combines the power of Oracle Database, with the unique capabilities of the Oracle Cloud. The service provides a secure, automated data management platform that leverages on demand Oracle Cloud Infrastructure services via a simple web based user interface and RESTful API. Oracle Database Cloud Service provides elastic database services for development, test, and production environments of custom and packaged online transaction processing (OLTP), data warehousing, and mixed workload applications. It enables businesses to reap all Oracle Platform as a Service (PaaS) benefits including subscriptionbased, self-service access to reliable, scalable, and elastic cloud environments and accelerates time to value by simplifying the provisioning and administration of Oracle databases.

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    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm19%
    Computer Software Company15%
    Retailer11%
    Manufacturing Company7%
    REVIEWERS
    Computer Software Company26%
    Comms Service Provider12%
    Government12%
    Financial Services Firm12%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm20%
    Computer Software Company14%
    Government7%
    Manufacturing Company7%
    Company Size
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business18%
    Midsize Enterprise10%
    Large Enterprise72%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business31%
    Midsize Enterprise25%
    Large Enterprise45%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business15%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise72%
    Buyer's Guide
    Google Cloud Spanner vs. Oracle Database as a Service
    March 2024
    Find out what your peers are saying about Google Cloud Spanner vs. Oracle Database as a Service and other solutions. Updated: March 2024.
    765,234 professionals have used our research since 2012.

    Google Cloud Spanner is ranked 8th in Database as a Service with 4 reviews while Oracle Database as a Service is ranked 4th in Database as a Service with 63 reviews. Google Cloud Spanner is rated 9.0, while Oracle Database as a Service is rated 8.6. 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 Oracle Database as a Service writes "Quite stable and renewable with an easy setup". Google Cloud Spanner is most compared with Amazon RDS, Google Cloud SQL, MongoDB Atlas, Oracle Exadata Cloud at Customer and SQL Azure, whereas Oracle Database as a Service is most compared with Amazon RDS, SQL Azure, Oracle Exadata Cloud at Customer, Google Cloud SQL and Redis. See our Google Cloud Spanner vs. Oracle Database as a Service report.

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