We performed a comparison between Amazon RDS and Google Cloud Spanner 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."Amazon RDS is very easy to use."
"The solution is good for on-premise deployments."
"I use Amazon RDS to store and manage data securely. It helps me retrieve information and gain insights from the data that comes in for my business or specific applications."
"Relational databases excel in extensive normalization, eliminating data redundancy and efficiently structuring tables which leads to a clear and efficient relationship between tables using primary keys."
"It is stable, scalable, and easy to deploy."
"I recommend RDS because it makes your life super easy."
"The Amazon RDS features I found most valuable are snapshots and automatic backups."
"The solution’s scalability, usability, and availability are valuable to us."
"The application deployment in the cloud is the best feature of the infrastructure."
"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."
"Google Cloud Spanner is stable."
"There are a few aspects of database management that have room for improvement. There are a few parameters in the solution that are a bit unclear at our end as it's not understandable."
"With my limited experience, I have noticed that documentation management could be improved. It could be better."
"One notable improvement that could enhance the database management experience, particularly during migration scenarios, is the accessibility of the root user."
"The Amazon RDS engine could provide features for additional databases, such as Db2. It could also provide support for other databases, such as NoSQL databases, DynamoDB, and Apache Cassandra. They could all stay under one hood."
"The support team of Amazon RDS provides us with some links to go through whenever we face some issues, but it doesn't work for us."
"I would like to see improvements in the tool's automatic restart."
"I feel Amazon RDS should have a lot of functionalities to make monitoring within the database easier."
"One of the challenges of AWS RDS is that it doesn't support performance insight. So we need to write our own script or use third-party tools."
"I want to improve the deployment of cameras and surveillance infrastructure."
"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."
"The tool needs to improve horizontal scaling."
Amazon RDS is ranked 1st in Database as a Service with 45 reviews while Google Cloud Spanner is ranked 8th in Database as a Service with 4 reviews. Amazon RDS is rated 8.4, while Google Cloud Spanner is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Amazon RDS writes "Provides excellent authentication, authorization, integration, data protection, and autoscaling features". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Google Cloud Spanner writes "A stable and scalable relational database that ensures a return on investment for its users". Amazon RDS is most compared with MongoDB Atlas, Google Cloud SQL, SQL Azure, Oracle Database as a Service and Oracle Exadata Cloud at Customer, whereas Google Cloud Spanner is most compared with MongoDB Atlas, Oracle Database as a Service, Oracle Exadata Cloud at Customer, Google Cloud SQL and Redis. See our Amazon RDS vs. Google Cloud Spanner report.
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