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 tool is very easy to use and configure."
"Being able to change the size of an RDS MySQL instance is amazing."
"The solution's customer service is excellent."
"Amazon RDS is a scalable solution."
"Amazon RDS is easy to manage, and it has customizable performance, high availability, and duality."
"It is very easy to set up initially."
"The initial setup is straightforward, and technical support is good."
"The IT is easy to set up, which is the best."
"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."
"The application deployment in the cloud is the best feature of the infrastructure."
"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."
"The product should support new databases."
"In the next release, it would be great to have access to core parameters to improve or tweak the performance."
"The only thing that needs improvement would be the pricing of the solution."
"It would be helpful if they made it easier to migrate from an existing on-premises solution to the cloud-based service."
"Amazon has a policy of automatically restarting the server every seven days."
"Amazon RDS needs to have an overall dashboard where I can view all the tables in the form of pie charts and Gantt charts. The deployment is complex, and we would like to see automated scripts. It needs to incorporate performance insights."
"The solution's version upgrade and performance could be improved."
"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."
"I want to improve the deployment of cameras and surveillance infrastructure."
"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, Google Cloud SQL, Oracle Database as a Service, Oracle Exadata Cloud at Customer and SQL Azure. See our Amazon RDS vs. Google Cloud Spanner report.
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