We performed a comparison between Google Cloud Spanner and MongoDB Atlas 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 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 application deployment in the cloud is the best feature of the infrastructure."
"I am impressed with the tool's integrations."
"It is nice because our developers create tables whenever they need to sync data."
"Administering the solution is easy."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"Being schemaless is what I like best about MongoDB Atlas."
"The stability and performance are great. The high availability feature is great. Moreover, I am happy with the automated backup and restore functionality."
"This solution is very helpful due to its ease of use."
"It's flexible. We don't need to have a solid upstream availability failover, and everything is seamless in Atlas."
"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."
"I want to improve the deployment of cameras and surveillance infrastructure."
"The tool needs to improve horizontal scaling."
"The product does not have ORM."
"The installation was straightforward except for the network hardware because it was a little complicated to make the connection with our VPC on AWS."
"The replica side, like the venue, can be improved."
"One improvement that I would like to see is a feature to export changes made in the environment, such as creating a new user."
"I would like a better dashboard. It could be made a bit more user friendly."
"The web console isn't very intuitive, especially for large data."
"The initial setup is not too difficult but can be somewhat tricky."
"I would like to have better performance for user experience with the solution."
Google Cloud Spanner is ranked 8th in Database as a Service with 4 reviews while MongoDB Atlas is ranked 3rd in Database as a Service with 43 reviews. Google Cloud Spanner is rated 9.0, while MongoDB Atlas 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 MongoDB Atlas writes "Allows our business to analyze social media data with machine learning and store the data in MongoDB". Google Cloud Spanner is most compared with Amazon RDS, Google Cloud SQL, Oracle Database as a Service, Oracle Exadata Cloud at Customer and SQL Azure, whereas MongoDB Atlas is most compared with Amazon RDS, SQL Azure, Google Cloud SQL, Oracle Database as a Service and Oracle Exadata Cloud at Customer. See our Google Cloud Spanner vs. MongoDB Atlas report.
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