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Google Cloud Spanner

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Google Cloud Spanner Reviews (35)

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Rajesh K.
RK
DevOps Engineer
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"My Journey with Google Cloud Spanner"
What do you like best about Google Cloud Spanner?

The thing which i like most is that it is managed service , which really helpful to reduced the management overhead. As a have also used RDS which is provided by aws but i love to use Google Cloud Spanner most because of ease of integration, ease of use, strong global transcation, horizontal scalability with strong consistency. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Google Cloud Spanner?

It is vendor lock- in and pricing is high on some cases. Sometime i also find that it is not best fir for all applications might not benefits from its specific features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ishaan S.
IS
Data Science Analyst
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"A great way to deal with heavy transactional workloads"
What do you like best about Google Cloud Spanner?

It's the best service if you want to migrate your heavy transactional workloads to have global distribution and high scalability. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Google Cloud Spanner?

It has very limited use cases like financial systems or supply chain management. Also, I would love for it to have analytical capabilities Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

NK
Software Engineer
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"best alternative for AWS DynamoDB at half the cost"
What do you like best about Google Cloud Spanner?

High performance and availablitity along with scalability. No overhead of maintainence and patching. It automatically handles sharding, replication and transaction processing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Google Cloud Spanner?

Earlier it was costly but now it is cheaper than alternatives along with low latency. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Gopi K.
GK
Practice Head PMO Enterprise Transformation
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Auto patch update with no downtime and Horozontal Sharing is top reason"
What do you like best about Google Cloud Spanner?

Auto patch update with no downtime and Horozontal Sharing iand ACID transaction compliant,Easy to implement and Scale up , distributed transactions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Google Cloud Spanner?

Challenging to deploy it in kubernut clusters and data back can be difficult Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

VR
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Cloud spanner is very high performance manged service."
What do you like best about Google Cloud Spanner?

We don't need to worry about infra and database servers configuration. Just create a instance and deploy a database. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Google Cloud Spanner?

Nothing negative about Google Cloud spanner database. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Cameron G.
CG
Senior Software Engineer
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Google Cloud Spanner offers unique value as scalable SQL solution"
What do you like best about Google Cloud Spanner?

It provides unique value. It's a relational db that horizontally scales. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Google Cloud Spanner?

It is very pricey, so we can't use it for everything we'd like to. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Retail
CR
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"A goto DB for business"
What do you like best about Google Cloud Spanner?

Google Cloud Spanner is highly efficient and available Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Google Cloud Spanner?

It is expensive and lacks auto scaling beyond the nodes that we purchased Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Mohammad S.
MS
Cloud Support Engineer - L2
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Excellent Relation Database"
What do you like best about Google Cloud Spanner?

Developed, managed and offered by Google. This instance may be started with a lower SKU than it now has and eventually increased up to meet our needs. Have the option of high availability with no downtime. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Google Cloud Spanner?

In comparison to other relational databases on the market, Cloud Spanner is a costly solution that does not offer all RDBMS functions, such as referential integrity. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Aarti A.
AA
Data Analyst
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Review for Google Cloud Spanner"
What do you like best about Google Cloud Spanner?

One of the best things about Google Cloud Spanner is that it provides super high availability, and it gets scaled automatically. So one does not need to end up doing unnecessary manual work on these aspects. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Google Cloud Spanner?

One drawback of using Google Cloud Spanner is that it is not compliant with either of MySQL or ANSI SQ, which may cause trouble to those who need to migrate a big load of data, and will thus need a lot of effort. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

DHRUVIN M.
DM
Platform Engineer
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Fully Managed RDMS with high and unlimited scaling."
What do you like best about Google Cloud Spanner?

Google Cloud and other public cloud providers provide very few relational database services to configure as a service. While Google cloud offers 2 major services for SQL databases which are cloud SQL and Cloud Spanner. Cloud Spanner is easy to integrate and can span or resize with no limits if you would require to grow. Cloud Spanner provides zero downtime and schema change with high transactions across the regions. You can perform ACID properties, SQL queries, etc with it. It does provide 99.999% availability of your data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Google Cloud Spanner?

Nothing as of now because it will help you to grow your database in a much efficient manner. It's very flexible to use for your GCP projects and the integration is much easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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