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."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."
"Google Cloud Spanner is stable."
"The application deployment in the cloud is the best feature of the infrastructure."
"The product is scalable."
"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."
"Google Cloud SQL enhances our AI-driven projects by providing features like query optimization and scalability for efficiently processing large datasets."
"Ease of management and the ability to oversee the statistics of your SQL."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"The solution is easy to use. I am impressed with the tool's features and functionality."
"The most valuable features are that it's easy to use, simple, and user-friendly."
"This is a stable solution and offers good performance."
"I want to improve the deployment of cameras and surveillance infrastructure."
"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."
"The cost can be a bit high."
"It is hard to do logging with the solution."
"The monitoring part could be better."
"The only thing that could be better is the pricing."
"I would like to see better integration with all the different tools on the platform."
"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 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 Cloud SQL still needs better connectivity to outside, existing data sources."
"The purging of the data could be better."
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 18 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 Exadata Cloud at Customer, Oracle Database as a Service and Redis, 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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