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Enables us to track the data that we get from external sources
Saurabh Chandratre
With the VPC, you can run your workloads in an active state, use it for development work and for hosting SQL/Exchange...
The projects that I have delivered on vCloud Air have definitely helped clients in having a full DR solution in cloud, for their head office as... Read more →
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  • "The pricing is very much an important factor as to why we use this solution."
  • "It's really cheap. It wouldn't be more than, I believe it's around 50 euro per month for running a cloud SQL."
  • "From a financial perspective, Google Cloud SQL is on the cheaper side."
  • "You need to pay extra costs for backup and replication."
  • "The solution is affordable."
  • "It is not expensive, especially considering the significant reduction in database management time."

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    What do you like most about Google Cloud SQL?
    Top Answer:The implementation part of the product was easy.
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    What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Google Cloud SQL?
    Top Answer:It is not expensive, especially considering the significant reduction in database management time.
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    What needs improvement with Google Cloud SQL?
    Top Answer:The most challenging part is dealing with legacy data from your old systems and migrating it into the new setup, but once you've completed the data migration, it becomes quite convenient to use.
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    Overview
    Google Cloud SQL is a fully-managed database service that makes it easy to set up, maintain, manage, and administer your relational PostgreSQL and MySQL databases in the cloud. Google Cloud SQL offers high performance, scalability, and convenience. Hosted on Google Cloud Platform, Cloud SQL provides a database infrastructure for applications running anywhere.
    vCloud Air is a public cloud platform built on the trusted foundation of vSphere, compatible with your on-premises data center, that includes infrastructure, disaster recovery, and various applications as service offerings. vCloud Air allows you to extend your workloads into the cloud with ease. You can migrate existing onsite virtual machines (VMs) to the public cloud or start up new application VMs directly in the cloud.
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    Google Cloud SQL is ranked 4th in Database as a Service with 16 reviews while vCloud Air is ranked 17th in Database as a Service. Google Cloud SQL is rated 8.4, while vCloud Air is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Google Cloud SQL writes "An easy-to-use solution with good features and functionality ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of vCloud Air writes "With the VPC, you can run your workloads in an active state, use it for development work and for hosting SQL/Exchange Servers in IaaS; RaaS/DaaS for DR activities". Google Cloud SQL is most compared with Amazon RDS, SQL Azure, MongoDB Atlas, Oracle Database as a Service and Google Cloud Spanner, whereas vCloud Air is most compared with Microsoft Azure, SQL Azure and Amazon AWS.

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