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Bachar Acherif
Very easy to deploy and execute
I am currently working as an independent consultant and am not part of a company that uses Google Cloud Spanner. My ultimate goal is to work on the... Read more →
Saurabh Chandratre
With the VPC, you can run your workloads in an active state, use it for development work and for hosting SQL/Exchange...
The projects that I have delivered on vCloud Air have definitely helped clients in having a full DR solution in cloud, for their head office as... Read more →
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    What is your primary use case for Google Cloud Spanner?
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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.

    vCloud Air is a public cloud platform built on the trusted foundation of vSphere, compatible with your on-premises data center, that includes infrastructure, disaster recovery, and various applications as service offerings. vCloud Air allows you to extend your workloads into the cloud with ease. You can migrate existing onsite virtual machines (VMs) to the public cloud or start up new application VMs directly in the cloud.
    Sample Customers
    Streak, Optiva, Mixpanel
    Lumeta, LifeSite, Clear Tec Solutions, National Physician Services, Queens University of Charlotte, California Natural Resources Agency, Pacific Disaster Center, Seventy Seven Energy Inc., Columbia Sportswear , CSS Corp
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    Financial Services Firm19%
    Computer Software Company15%
    Retailer12%
    Manufacturing Company7%
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    Small Business19%
    Midsize Enterprise11%
    Large Enterprise71%
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    Google Cloud Spanner is ranked 8th in Database as a Service with 4 reviews while vCloud Air is ranked 17th in Database as a Service. Google Cloud Spanner is rated 9.0, while vCloud Air is rated 8.0. 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 vCloud Air writes "With the VPC, you can run your workloads in an active state, use it for development work and for hosting SQL/Exchange Servers in IaaS; RaaS/DaaS for DR activities". Google Cloud Spanner is most compared with Amazon RDS, MongoDB Atlas, Google Cloud SQL, Oracle Database as a Service and Oracle Exadata Cloud at Customer, whereas vCloud Air is most compared with Microsoft Azure, SQL Azure and Amazon AWS.

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