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."Amazon RDS is lightweight and flexible."
"Amazon RDS gives us the ability to select as many tools, replicas, regions, and zones as we want."
"I use Amazon RDS to store and manage data securely. It helps me retrieve information and gain insights from the data that comes in for my business or specific applications."
"The product is very, very easy to use."
"The most valuable feature is that it is a fully managed database, where they handle most of the administrative tasks and leaves the users more time to concentrate on business."
"The IT is easy to set up, which is the best."
"Amazon RDS is easy to maintain and easy to deploy."
"Amazon RDS is very easy to use."
"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."
"We can scale the solution if we need to."
"Google Cloud Spanner is stable."
"In the next release, it would be great to have access to core parameters to improve or tweak the performance."
"In the next release, it would be great to see RDS provide connection pooling out of the box."
"The solution is a bit expensive."
"I also don't think it's very scalable."
"The solution could improve the administration tools."
"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."
"One of the challenges of AWS RDS is that it doesn't support performance insight. So we need to write our own script or use third-party tools."
"One notable improvement that could enhance the database management experience, particularly during migration scenarios, is the accessibility of the root user."
"The cost can be a bit high."
"The tool needs to improve horizontal scaling."
"I want to improve the deployment of cameras and surveillance infrastructure."
"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."
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 Google Cloud SQL, MongoDB Atlas, SQL Azure, Oracle Database as a Service and Oracle Exadata Cloud at Customer, whereas Google Cloud Spanner is most compared with Google Cloud SQL, Oracle Database as a Service, MongoDB Atlas, Oracle Exadata Cloud at Customer and SQL Azure. See our Amazon RDS vs. Google Cloud Spanner report.
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