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."We can scale the solution if we need to."
"Google Cloud Spanner is stable."
"The application deployment in the cloud is the best feature of the infrastructure."
"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."
"The hardware is all managed by Microsoft."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"It is good for scalability and high availability. It is also secure because of Microsoft's cloud investment. It is easy to use because it is on the cloud. Creation or making it available through web services is super easy. Azure SQL can be quickly published as web services for APIs to connect with other applications. Because it is in Microsoft Cloud, you can easily integrate with Microsoft stack."
"The solution is quite straightforward to set up."
"SQL Azure is reliable and scales well."
"The solution is a fairly mature product. It provides good stability."
"I am very happy with this solution; right now, I don't think there is anything I would change."
"One of the most valuable aspects is its seamless integration with Azure Data Factory."
"The cost can be a bit high."
"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."
"I want to improve the deployment of cameras and surveillance infrastructure."
"Operational cost needs improvement."
"If we need to deploy data management or services with SQL Azure we need InterSecure."
"Their support is nice but their responses aren't effective."
"Its automation can be improved. SQL Server Agent was a very big part of the on-prem tools. While moving from on-prem to the cloud, redoing some of such tools was very cumbersome in Azure. There was a whole new set of technologies and methodologies. It should have easier automation-type features to be able to implement such tools. It should have almost a SQL agent type of substance built into that."
"Scalability is an issue because we can't upgrade to new versions due to hardware limitations."
"I would like to the solutions scalability to be improved."
"They should include more accessible functions for image tooling."
"I was using a user list for connecting a program in OTF for getting information. The connection in SQL Azure can improve by being easier because at the moment I have to use private certificates for user authentication. I had to do additional configuration to have the connections."
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, Google Cloud SQL, Oracle Database as a Service and Redis, whereas SQL Azure is most compared with Amazon RDS, Google Cloud SQL, 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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