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."We can scale the solution if we need to."
"The application deployment in the cloud is the best feature of the infrastructure."
"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."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"My suggestion to anyone thinking about this solution is to jump into it head-first!"
"It supports different databases, like Postgres and MySQL."
"The solution is easy to use. I am impressed with the tool's features and functionality."
"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."
"The implementation part of the product was easy."
"The setup was straightforward. Just a couple of clicks, and we were done."
"It is not the cool features that I find valuable, it is the stability of Google Cloud Platform."
"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."
"The tool needs to improve horizontal scaling."
"I want to improve the deployment of cameras and surveillance infrastructure."
"It is hard to do logging with the solution."
"For data analysis, the AI area of the product has certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
"The only thing that could be better is the pricing."
"I would like to see better availability of the product in different regions. It should also improve the security with encryption."
"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."
"I would like to see better integration with all the different tools on the platform."
"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 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 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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