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April 2024
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We performed a comparison between Google Cloud Spanner and IBM Db2 on Cloud based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Bachar Acherif
Very easy to deploy and execute
I am currently working as an independent consultant and am not part of a company that uses Google Cloud Spanner. My ultimate goal is to work on the... Read more →
Anonymous User
Reliable and user-friendly
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Pros
"The application deployment in the cloud is the best feature of the infrastructure.""Google Cloud Spanner is stable.""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."

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"The reliability is the most valuable feature. It is also user-friendly."

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Cons
"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.""The cost can be a bit high.""The tool needs to improve horizontal scaling."

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"I would give their support a ten if they had more tutorials available."

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  • "It is expensive."
  • "Google Cloud Spanner is an expensive solution."
  • "The solution is expensive."

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    8th
    out of 23 in Database as a Service
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    1,590
    Comparisons
    1,253
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    4
    Average Words per Review
    384
    Rating
    9.0
    12th
    out of 23 in Database as a Service
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    370
    Comparisons
    315
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    Overview

    Cloud Spanner is the first and only relational database service that is both strongly consistent and horizontally scalable. With Cloud Spanner you enjoy all the traditional benefits of a relational database: ACID transactions, relational schemas (and schema changes without downtime), SQL queries, high performance, and high availability. But unlike any other relational database service, Cloud Spanner scales horizontally, to hundreds or thousands of servers, so it can handle the highest of transactional workloads. With automatic scaling, synchronous data replication, and node redundancy, Cloud Spanner delivers up to 99.999% (five 9s) of availability for your mission critical applications. In fact, Google’s internal Spanner service has been handling millions of queries per second from many Google services for years.

    A fully-managed cloud SQL database. Powered by a turbo-charged Db2 engine.

    Sample Customers
    Streak, Optiva, Mixpanel
    Owens-Illinois, KONE Corp., Cambridgeshire Fire and Rescue, Canon Europe, Delhaize America, Wimbledon
    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm18%
    Computer Software Company15%
    Retailer12%
    Manufacturing Company7%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Manufacturing Company13%
    Financial Services Firm13%
    University12%
    Computer Software Company11%
    Company Size
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business18%
    Midsize Enterprise10%
    Large Enterprise72%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business13%
    Midsize Enterprise17%
    Large Enterprise70%
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    Google Cloud Spanner is ranked 8th in Database as a Service with 4 reviews while IBM Db2 on Cloud is ranked 12th in Database as a Service. Google Cloud Spanner is rated 9.0, while IBM Db2 on Cloud is rated 9.0. 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 IBM Db2 on Cloud writes "Reliable and user-friendly ". Google Cloud Spanner is most compared with Amazon RDS, Google Cloud SQL, Oracle Database as a Service, MongoDB Atlas and Oracle Exadata Cloud at Customer, whereas IBM Db2 on Cloud is most compared with SQL Azure, Amazon RDS and Google Cloud SQL.

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