We performed a comparison between Google Cloud Spanner and Google Cloud SQL 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."Google Cloud Spanner is stable."
"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."
"The application deployment in the cloud is the best feature of the infrastructure."
"The solution is easy to use. I am impressed with the tool's features and functionality."
"My suggestion to anyone thinking about this solution is to jump into it head-first!"
"The valuable feature of Google Cloud SQL is its high availability option. The product is stable."
"It's SQL. SQL is so easy if you know something about databases. It's easy to learn."
"This is a stable solution and offers good performance."
"The most valuable features are that it's easy to use, simple, and user-friendly."
"Ease of management and the ability to oversee the statistics of your SQL."
"The setup was straightforward. Just a couple of clicks, and we were done."
"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."
"Google Cloud SQL still needs better connectivity to outside, existing data sources."
"It is hard to do logging with the solution."
"The purging of the data could be better."
"I would like to see better availability of the product in different regions. It should also improve the security with encryption."
"In the case of Google, they need to work on a more easy interface for users."
"The only thing that could be better is the pricing."
"For data analysis, the AI area of the product has certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
"I would like to see better integration with all the different tools on the platform."
Google Cloud Spanner is ranked 8th in Database as a Service with 4 reviews while Google Cloud SQL is ranked 5th in Database as a Service with 16 reviews. Google Cloud Spanner is rated 9.0, while Google Cloud SQL is rated 8.4. 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 Google Cloud SQL writes "An easy-to-use solution with good features and functionality ". Google Cloud Spanner is most compared with Amazon RDS, MongoDB Atlas, Oracle Exadata Cloud at Customer, Oracle Database as a Service and Redis, whereas Google Cloud SQL is most compared with Amazon RDS, SQL Azure, MongoDB Atlas, Oracle Database as a Service and Oracle Exadata Cloud at Customer. See our Google Cloud SQL vs. Google Cloud Spanner report.
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