Google Cloud Spanner Reviews

Name: Google Cloud Spanner
Brand: Google
Rating: 5 (5 reviews)

4.5 out of 5

5 reviews
100% willing to recommend

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What is Google Cloud Spanner?

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.

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Google Cloud Spanner is the #8 ranked solution in top Database as a Service vendors. PeerSpot users give Google Cloud Spanner an average rating of 9.0 out of 10. Google Cloud Spanner is most commonly compared to Amazon RDS: Google Cloud Spanner vs Amazon RDS. Google Cloud Spanner is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 72% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a financial services firm, accounting for 19% of all views.

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Ethan Lo

Infrastructuer Security at Premise Data

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. You can change Google Cloud Spanner's resource configuration, which is done through processing units. Suppose you set up Google Cloud Spanner initially with a hundred processing units, and then you run out of resources since your database used too much CPU. In the aforementioned scenario, you can scale up or down and face no downtime in the production phase. The solution's features are important when running a company twenty-four hours, seven days a week.

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Saurav Krishna

Data Engineering and AI Intern at .3Lines Venture Capital

The tool needs to improve horizontal scaling. I have been using the product for a year. Google Cloud Spanner is stable. My company has 15-20 users for the product. The tool's deployment is easy. The solution is expensive. You need to look at the data set and company requirements. I rate…

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Aakash Sharma

Senior Technical Architect at HCL Technologies

We use the solution for mainly multi-regional relational data where you need to scale well and RDBMS does not. We chose the solution for scalability and multi-regional use cases It spans well. Normally, we have issues with MySQL and other relational databases, however, this is not an issue with…

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Google Cloud Spanner mindshare

As of July 2024, the mindshare of Google Cloud Spanner in the Database as a Service category stands at 3.1%, down from 4.1% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Valuable Features

"It is a very scalable solution."
"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."

Room for Improvement

"The tool lacks to offer AI features."
"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."