Google Cloud Spanner vs Oracle Database as a Service comparison

Google Cloud Spanner vs. Oracle Database as a Service

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Categories and Ranking

Google Cloud Spanner

Ranking in Database as a Service (DBaaS)

8th

Average Rating

9.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Oracle Database as a Service

Ranking in Database as a Service (DBaaS)

7th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2026, in the Database as a Service (DBaaS) category, the mindshare of Google Cloud Spanner is 7.8%, up from 4.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Oracle Database as a Service is 7.7%, down from 9.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Database as a Service (DBaaS) Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Oracle Database as a Service	7.7%
Google Cloud Spanner	7.8%
Other	84.5%

Database as a Service (DBaaS)

Featured Reviews

LijomonJose

System Architect at UST Global EspaÃ±a

Offers good performance to users

The tool lacks to offer AI features. In the future, I would like the product to offer AI features to users. Nowadays, we are creating small acronyms for our SQL Server. We put some templates. If I just put your name and stop it, the entire cloud can be explored, but such features are not there in Google Cloud Spanner. As a layman rather than a developer, if I create a tool or a procedure. If I write a procedure and then when you describe a procedure, a dummy procedure will be written for you, and it will be available for you as a template in SQL Server, but such kind features are not there in Google Cloud Spanner.

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reviewer2728149

Presales Manager | Global at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees

Have consistently achieved efficient integrations and availability

I am more focused on the leadership side and having the right human plans to make things happen. There are some parts available, but our goal is to move toward a single platform. I would prefer to remain anonymous in discussions. On a scale of 1-10, I rate Oracle Database as a Service a seven.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"It is a very scalable solution."

"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."

"Google Cloud Spanner is stable."

"We can scale the solution if we need to."

"It is very easy to use."

"Oracle Database as a Service's most valuable feature is its financial applications."

"The encryption level, resilience, and secure features from both clients, particularly the resilience aspect of Oracle Database, are highly valuable."

"I like the solution's performance and ease of development."

"From a scalability standpoint, as big as the world is, as big as you can think, that's how large you can scale your applications."

"We value the single data run that the solution provides."

"My impression of the scalability of Oracle Database as a Service is very high."

"You can be up and running the same day."

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Cons

"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 lacks to offer AI features."

"I want to improve the deployment of cameras and surveillance infrastructure."

"The tool needs to improve horizontal scaling."

"The cost can be a bit high."

"Its application development could be enhanced to fully utilize its features."

"The solution needs more certifications for other products and applications because migration to the cloud is difficult without them."

"Documentation is difficult to find. Since we're experienced with Oracle technology, we have also found many errors in it. Not everything is 100% accurate."

"Oracle Database as a Service is very convenient to use. However, we need to know to which schema we want it to connect specifically, and what are the username and password. The solution requires some basic knowledge of SQL RP and SQL Oracle to use it."

"Some of the technical features could be improved. They have a problem with some of the object types. I think this is one of the issues which is needed to be improved."

"The installation process requires improvement as it can be quite complex."

"The licensing model is complicated and should be simplified."

"One of the things that I have noticed is that there are some services that will give you a hard time during implementation if you are looking at the documentation of Oracle. Sometimes the documentation information is quite limited. It's an aspect of the solution they could improve."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"It is expensive."

"Google Cloud Spanner is an expensive solution."

"The solution is expensive."

"Price-wise, I heard that Google Cloud Spanner is on the higher side."

"It is a very expensive tool."

"Customers need to pay extra costs for the solution based on their scope and business."

"The cost for Oracle Database as a Service is higher than that for other similar solutions."

"The pricing may seem expensive, but the value corresponds to the quality of the product."

"The price of Oracle Database as a Service could be better."

"The pricing is a little bit expensive."

"What has been done is that an annual subscription model has been launched, which includes the payment of both the AML (Annual Maintenance Fee) and the subscription fee, paid on a yearly basis."

"It is notably expensive when compared to the features offered by other alternatives."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

23%

Computer Software Company

12%

Healthcare Company

Media Company

Financial Services Firm

16%

Computer Software Company

Retailer

Marketing Services Firm

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

No data available

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	23
Midsize Enterprise	18
Large Enterprise	32

Questions from the Community

What is your primary use case for Google Cloud Spanner?

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...

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Google Cloud Spanner?

Price-wise, I heard that Google Cloud Spanner is on the higher side. I am not sure if this is a rumor or if it's fake news, but I believe that having BigQuery and GCP together could be a little cos...

What needs improvement with Google Cloud Spanner?

What do you like most about Oracle Database as a Service?

It has significantly enhanced our application development process by introducing substantial time savings and streamlining routine tasks.

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Oracle Database as a Service?

The setup cost is approximately four hours.

What needs improvement with Oracle Database as a Service?

I see some negative sides that could be improved, and that is the licensing. The issue with licensing is the price and the way they license through partners.

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Also Known As

Google Spanner

Oracle DBaaS, Oracle Database Cloud

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.

Google

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.

Oracle

Sample Customers

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Google Cloud Spanner vs. Oracle Database as a Service