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."I recommend RDS because it makes your life super easy."
"Amazon RDS is lightweight and flexible."
"Amazon RDS is easy to manage, and it has customizable performance, high availability, and duality."
"The tool is very easy to use and configure."
"The product is very, very easy to use."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten...Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten."
"The most valuable feature of Amazon RDS is its performance."
"Amazon RDS is easy to maintain and easy to deploy."
"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."
"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."
"Amazon RDS should have a more user-friendly graphical user interface and include better database management options."
"One notable improvement that could enhance the database management experience, particularly during migration scenarios, is the accessibility of the root user."
"The solution is a bit expensive."
"You can only get access from the sales support. That means if you want to buy something or renew your subscription or upgrade, all these services are easily available. Yet, if you would like to get some technical support, you have to pay for it. You have to pay for an additional subscription."
"I feel Amazon RDS should have a lot of functionalities to make monitoring within the database easier."
"The solution could improve by adding a sandbox environment and more security."
"The solution's connectivity and response logs could be improved."
"The Performance Monitor they have is a little clanky, at least in regards to the UI."
"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 cost can be a bit high."
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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