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."The application deployment in the cloud is the best feature of the infrastructure."
"Google Cloud Spanner is stable."
"We can scale the solution if we need to."
"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."
"Azure Portal is most valuable."
"This solution offers high availability, and business continuity is in place."
"It is very fast in replicating the data from one database to another. We do some extractions from multiple databases to a target database that we use for visualization. It has a good speed."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that our customers do not have to manage the solution."
"One of the most valuable aspects is its seamless integration with Azure Data Factory."
"Great auto-scaling and security features."
"It's easy to use and maintain. If we look at the development of the maintenance team, we are not directly responsible for any infrastructure issues. We have too many positive sides to that. No maintenance, easy to use, and we'll know the limits very well."
"Its cost benefit is most valuable because you are charged per data unit instead of licensing. You can easily migrate your on-premise SQL to the cloud with a managed instance. That's what it is designed to do. It is easy to take your on-premise or older SQL instance and move it to the cloud. It makes it easy to get off your on-premise SQL and start utilizing the cost benefit of the cloud."
"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."
"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 pricing plans when using multiple Microsoft solutions are complex and have room for improvement."
"Microsoft could improve its documentation and support."
"The solution has to scale up its expertise for hosting Oracle."
"I would like to see integration with Snowflake."
"I'm not really a SQL DBA, so I can't go into the depths of the areas that need to be improved. They can maybe make it a bit easier to educate people on how to develop SQL Server in Azure. They can provide some free seminars and webinars and more training in general for easier migration. I know there is some stuff on Microsoft learning, but it would be helpful and useful to have more up-to-date content."
"They should also simplify the security in Azure. We are using the cloud as a platform, so there is no physical infrastructure. We're using Azure components like databases and servers to create an application. Integrating those components in terms of permissions and security is challenging for us. Maybe there is a lack of knowledge on our side, but it's not straightforward."
"The price is a little higher."
"The solution can be improved by reducing the constraints available."
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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