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."
"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."
"Azure Portal is most valuable."
"The stability is good and the performance is fantastic. Even when we try to do an inquiry into issues we can do it easily."
"Emergency mode is quite useful."
"It's easy to use in terms of their portal, which is very nicely organized."
"The most valuable aspects of this solution are the integration with the darknet stack especially Microsoft, table groups, supports major capability requirements, and SQL always-on feature."
"The scalability and simple management of the infrastructure are the most valuable features."
"I am very happy with this solution; right now, I don't think there is anything I would change."
"The solution is quite straightforward to set up."
"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."
"The configuration is the area that is most cumbersome."
"I would like to see the cloud connectivity environment improved."
"There is probably more functionality in our on-prem SQL Server than SQL Azure."
"Although the solution integrates well into Azure’s ecosystem, it has limited capability and is incompatible with many third-party applications or tools."
"It's a little bit limited in terms of functionality."
"It can have more dashboards for monitoring, which would naturally help a lot. Other than that, everything is okay."
"The only problem we have with Azure is regarding the price."
"Integration needs to be improved for this solution."
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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