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."Google Cloud Spanner is stable."
"The application deployment in the cloud is the best feature of the infrastructure."
"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."
"We can scale the solution if we need to."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"The most valuable features are that it's easy to use, simple, and user-friendly."
"My suggestion to anyone thinking about this solution is to jump into it head-first!"
"What I like the most about Google Cloud SQL is that it handles the management, which allows us to concentrate on our applications."
"The setup was straightforward. Just a couple of clicks, and we were done."
"Its most valuable feature is that it's scalable. I can start off with a base of a lot of data and move as much as I want and it's the same as if asked to do a lot of infrastructure changes."
"Ease of management and the ability to oversee the statistics of your SQL."
"It's SQL. SQL is so easy if you know something about databases. It's easy to learn."
"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."
"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 purging of the data could be better."
"In the case of Google, they need to work on a more easy interface for users."
"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."
"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."
"The customer support should be improved."
"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 Cloud Spanner is ranked 8th in Database as a Service with 4 reviews while Google Cloud SQL is ranked 5th 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, MongoDB Atlas, Oracle Database as a Service, 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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