We performed a comparison between Google Cloud Spanner and SQL Azure 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."
"We can scale the solution if we need to."
"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."
"Its performance is good. It has a lot of features. It has the backup feature, which is not there in Amazon RDS. In Azure SQL, there is an option to replicate and restore a database point to point, whereas we can't do that with Amazon RDS."
"It's easy to use in terms of their portal, which is very nicely organized."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"Its technical support team is good."
"The initial setup was straightforward. Deployment takes about one hour."
"We don't have to manage it much. It is managed by Microsoft, which makes it easy for us because there is no admin overhead for managing the servers. It is also easily scalable. During peak hours, it can scale higher."
"The solution is a fairly mature product. It provides good stability."
"The administration console in Azure, all in one is the most valuable feature."
"The tool needs to improve horizontal scaling."
"I want to improve the deployment of cameras and surveillance infrastructure."
"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 think that the cost management in SQL is not clear because we may use some tax to identify products, but in some cases identifying the transactions in SQL is not easy for some financial cost centers."
"The management is entirely controlled by Microsoft, so there are some restrictions."
"It's very difficult to investigate if something wrong is going on behind the scenes. If we are facing a problem that our application is doing a CPU spike and when we look at the dump of the details, the processes that our application is generating are not consuming more than 40-50% of CPU. But we don’t know where it is going, who's generating it, and who's consuming the CPU. Even Microsoft says they don’t know."
"The configuration is the area that is most cumbersome."
"There are certain shortcomings when it comes to the stability of the product, especially if I consider the fact that there can always be some bug-related issues in the tool."
"The problem is the automated configuration."
"The solution requires familiarity with its language so can be tricky."
"Its price could be better. It is expensive. I am not sure if Microsoft Master Data Services is included in this. If not, Master Data Services can be integrated with Azure SQL. I have only used Master Data Services on-premises."
Google Cloud Spanner is ranked 8th in Database as a Service with 4 reviews while SQL Azure is ranked 2nd in Database as a Service with 90 reviews. Google Cloud Spanner is rated 9.0, while SQL Azure is rated 8.6. 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 SQL Azure writes "The SQL connector effectively syncs data to databases". Google Cloud Spanner is most compared with Amazon RDS, MongoDB Atlas, Oracle Database as a Service, Oracle Exadata Cloud at Customer and Yugabyte Cloud, whereas SQL Azure is most compared with Google Cloud SQL, Amazon RDS, MongoDB Atlas, Oracle Database as a Service and IBM Db2 on Cloud. See our Google Cloud Spanner vs. SQL Azure report.
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