Google Cloud Spanner Reviews & Product Details

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.

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.

The ability of cross table transactions.

The horizontal scaling capabilities.

Less expensive.

Integrations support and shrading capabilities Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Not easy learning curve.

Support for less databases.

Support for less schemas and indexes.

Backup support is not available Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Queries speed , node scalability,multi site replication Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Google Cloud Spanner is not suitable for a small dataset where you perform transactions Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

SQL database management and wide storage Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Consistency of GCS should be more stronger Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Relational databases are great but not as scalable as NoSQL databases — Spanner provides the needed scalability Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Spanner is quite pricey since there is nothing else like it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

- Scalability

- Performance

- Latency

- Perfect CLI and Console interfaces

- Libraries in NodeJS, Java, .Net Core, etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

- More features about adding constraints

- It doesn't have transaction-based pricing (similar to FireStore) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I think this is really cool and I like it a lot Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I dislike the cost of Spanner. It is a lot more expensive than other similar products. I also dislike the amount of latency. I also wish that I could use this with my on-prem cloud providers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Spanner is scalable database with virtually unlimited horizontal scalability and nearly 100 percent service level agreement which anyone wouldn’t like to pass on Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Cost to implement is really high compared to other data base. The product was released in 2017 and its missing many of the advanced features provided by market leaders Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It spans several regions and keeps data consistent in the process. It supports most needed data types and allows changing the length of string columns and changing columns from null to not null without having to create a new column. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's queries are nuanced and can be a bit slow. Thankfully, it does now support data manipulation queries, but you still can't make column type or name changes on the fly. (IE Int -> String) It also only supports longs (no int32, int16, etc). This might not be a big deal if you are migrating an existing database to Cloud Spanner, but if you are developing new software on it where you need a number of changes, the data migrations are a bit painful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Google cloud spanner is a horizontal scalable SQL database service offering from google cloud that can be easily deployed.There is no need to provision space as it support automatic scaling as new data comes in .

Support integration with cloud storage so files can easily be transferred from cloud storage buckets

Multi language support with IAM and Data layer encryption

support horizontal scalability across rows and regions unlike cloud SQL which only support vertical scalability Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Cloud spanner cross region egress charge rate is quite higher than the other cloud SQL offering Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.