We performed a comparison between Google Cloud Spanner and Oracle Database as a Service 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 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 application deployment in the cloud is the best feature of the infrastructure."
"Google Cloud Spanner is stable."
"We can scale the solution if we need to."
"My impression of the scalability of Oracle Database as a Service is very high."
"As a database administrator, it has a lot of features to help you manage the database and the backup."
"Oracle Database as a Service is stable."
"It is a product brought to you by a company that concentrates only on database solutions, so it is the best at what it does."
"The solution is very stable. It's very powerful."
"One of the key features is Oracle Database as a Service. We chose to implement it as a service, which provides good performance, for example. Flexibility and other features let us implement database research with the SQL team range of features also."
"Scalability is very easy. If you want to, you can make it onto two or three servers, racks, or whatever you want. It's easy."
"The most valuable feature of Oracle Database as a Service is the stopwatch."
"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."
"The solution can be improved by reducing the pricing, making the deployment less complex, and increasing security."
"The solution is not very stable."
"The price of Oracle Database as a Service could be better."
"In the next release, I would like to see a framework for memory management."
"Its application development could be enhanced to fully utilize its features."
"There is room for improvement in terms of flexibility."
"I would like to see a better dashboard for the storage. It need to be more complete overall."
"Oracle Database as a Service could improve the performance when monitoring."
Google Cloud Spanner is ranked 8th in Database as a Service with 4 reviews while Oracle Database as a Service is ranked 4th in Database as a Service with 63 reviews. Google Cloud Spanner is rated 9.0, while Oracle Database as a Service 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 Oracle Database as a Service writes "Quite stable and renewable with an easy setup". Google Cloud Spanner is most compared with Amazon RDS, MongoDB Atlas, Google Cloud SQL, Oracle Exadata Cloud at Customer and Redis, whereas Oracle Database as a Service is most compared with Amazon RDS, Oracle Exadata Cloud at Customer, SQL Azure, Google Cloud SQL and Redis. See our Google Cloud Spanner vs. Oracle Database as a Service report.
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