We performed a comparison between Amazon RDS, Google Cloud Spanner, and Google Cloud SQL based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft, MongoDB and others in Database as a Service."The solution's customer service is excellent."
"The dashboard and performance are the most valuable features of Amazon RDS."
"Amazon RDS is very easy to use."
"Relational databases excel in extensive normalization, eliminating data redundancy and efficiently structuring tables which leads to a clear and efficient relationship between tables using primary keys."
"The time to install or set up a database environment is very fast."
"Being able to change the size of an RDS MySQL instance is amazing."
"Amazon RDS gives us the ability to select as many tools, replicas, regions, and zones as we want."
"It is easy to use, flexible, and powerful."
"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."
"I found its storage and security to be the most valuable. It was a good experience. It is also very stable and scalable, and its support is perfect."
"The valuable feature of Google Cloud SQL is its high availability option. The product is stable."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"Ease of management and the ability to oversee the statistics of your SQL."
"It supports different databases, like Postgres and MySQL."
"Its most valuable feature is that it's scalable. I can start off with a base of a lot of data and move as much as I want and it's the same as if asked to do a lot of infrastructure changes."
"It's SQL. SQL is so easy if you know something about databases. It's easy to learn."
"Amazon has a policy of automatically restarting the server every seven days."
"The product must add more older versions of the database engines."
"When you are using it for the first time, it is a little bit hard to configure. The first-time configuration is not very easy. It should be easier to configure. Its installation should also be simpler. Currently, its installation is very complex. With SQL Server, we have access to the SQL Server analysis services and reporting services, but such services are not available with Amazon RDS."
"There are some advanced monitoring queries that we cannot execute because Amazon doesn't give admin privileges to the end users."
"I would like to see improvements in the tool's automatic restart."
"Sometimes the interface has many moving parts, which is a concern."
"They should add a feature for manual SQL patching in RDS."
"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 tool needs to improve horizontal scaling."
"The cost can be a bit high."
"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's technical support is good, but they tend to never reopen a case and to send us snippets from the publicly available documentation. It's not as helpful as you would expect, not just for Google Cloud SQL but for all of Google Cloud products."
"Google Cloud SQL still needs better connectivity to outside, existing data sources."
"The most vulnerable problem with Google SQL is that while you can customize your access control list, it provides you with a public IP address."
"In the case of Google, they need to work on a more easy interface for users."
"The monitoring part could be better."
"For data analysis, the AI area of the product has certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
"I am yet to explore a lot of features that are present in this solution. However, it would be good if more documentation is available for this solution. This would help us in preparing for the certification exam and understand it better. Currently, we don't have much documentation. We do the labs for 20 or 25 minutes, but we can't capture and download anything."
"I would like to see better availability of the product in different regions. It should also improve the security with encryption."
