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."The most valuable feature is that it is a fully managed database, where they handle most of the administrative tasks and leaves the users more time to concentrate on business."
"The most valuable feature of Amazon RDS is its performance."
"The solution's customer service is excellent."
"The solution has unique features like backup and recovery, and snapshots. It upgrades automatically. The solution offers easy analytics concerning performance metrics. Its reliability and scalability are very good. The tool's most valuable features are disaster recovery, high availability and scalability."
"Amazon RDS is good for backups, auto-scanning, and disaster recovery. It's also appropriate for the office server."
"Amazon RDS is easy to manage, and it has customizable performance, high availability, and duality."
"It is very easy to set up initially."
"Amazon RDS is quite a well-managed and stable service...The initial setup was very easy."
"Google Cloud Spanner is stable."
"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."
"Technical support could be better."
"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."
"I would like to see improvements in the tool's automatic restart."
"Amazon has a policy of automatically restarting the server every seven days."
"Currently, speaking of Microsoft SQL on RDS, you don't have a full option to be able to use it directly on RDS. So, it needs improvement."
"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."
"In the next release, it would be great to have access to core parameters to improve or tweak the performance."
"When you are using it for the first time, it is a little bit hard to configure. The first-time configuration is not very easy. It should be easier to configure. Its installation should also be simpler. Currently, its installation is very complex. With SQL Server, we have access to the SQL Server analysis services and reporting services, but such services are not available with Amazon RDS."
"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 cost can be a bit high."
"I want to improve the deployment of cameras and surveillance infrastructure."
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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