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Verified User in Airlines/Aviation

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

4/23/2022

"Best service from google for OLTP databases which supports ACID properties"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Google Cloud Spanner?

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.

What do you dislike about Google Cloud Spanner?

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.

Recommendations to others considering Google Cloud Spanner:

If your workloads are in GCP then you should definitely include spanner in your architecture. If you use mysql then it is very great service and comes up with less expens. Backups you have to manage separately although they provides high availability. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Google Cloud Spanner solving and how is that benefiting you?

Relational database management for OLTP Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Pawan K.

Bigdata Platform Architect at HCL Technologies Limited

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

1/14/2022

"Cloud spanner is nice replacement of on-premise oracle database"

4/5

What do you like best about Google Cloud Spanner?

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

What do you dislike about Google Cloud Spanner?

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

Priya A.

Security Consultant

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

1/10/2022

"GcS"

2.5/5

What do you like best about Google Cloud Spanner?

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

What do you dislike about Google Cloud Spanner?

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

Verified User in Biotechnology

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

10/18/2021

"Cloud Spanner provides the best of both worlds with a horizontally scalable relational database"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Google Cloud Spanner?

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

What do you dislike about Google Cloud Spanner?

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

Verified User in Computer Software

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

8/17/2021

"The best high scale relational database"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Google Cloud Spanner?

- Scalability

- Performance

- Latency

- Perfect CLI and Console interfaces

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

What do you dislike about Google Cloud Spanner?

- More features about adding constraints

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

Verified User in Computer Software

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

9/2/2019

"I love Google Cloud Spanner"

3.5/5

What do you like best about Google Cloud Spanner?

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

What do you dislike about Google Cloud Spanner?

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.

Recommendations to others considering Google Cloud Spanner:

It is pretty cool and everyione should consider using it in order to improve their wquality of engineering and how they develop faster. If I were to reccomend this product to a feiend, I would ask Google to fix the UI. Because the UI is very difficult to use for some people. Especially people that have a hard time seeing screens and viewing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Google Cloud Spanner solving and how is that benefiting you?

Using Google CLoud spanner has allowed me to improve the product I offer to my customers. Since I need my application to be highly available, Spanner is a product that I rely on to reach my customers at scale and very easily. using spanner has allowed me to build faster and improve my overall product offering. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

11/29/2019

"Scalable relational database"

4/5

What do you like best about Google Cloud Spanner?

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.

What do you dislike about Google Cloud Spanner?

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.

Loren K.

Team Lead

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

12/27/2018

"Large Relational Database"

4/5

What do you like best about Google Cloud Spanner?

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.

What do you dislike about Google Cloud Spanner?

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.

Recommendations to others considering Google Cloud Spanner:

Use it only if you have to have a multi-regional database. If you're good with a database that is in one spot, then there is no need to put up with its limitations or high cost. However, they are improving it regularly so in another year it may have a comparable feature set to MySQL. It is still, however, quite expensive per node and you need at least three nodes in the production cluster. Because it has limitations compared to normal SQL, you also need to be using it in your development and staging environments which further adds to the cost. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Google Cloud Spanner solving and how is that benefiting you?

We use it because we want a super reliable, database in multiple data centers which it does well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

6/27/2019

"Great Scalable Database"

4/5

What do you like best about Google Cloud Spanner?

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.

What do you dislike about Google Cloud Spanner?

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

Kyle R.

Student Administrative Assistant- Center for Student Academic Support

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

1/24/2019

"Google Cloud Spanner review"

4/5

What do you like best about Google Cloud Spanner?

What I like best about the google cloud spanner is the fact that it is a strongly consistent database service that combines the benefits of relational database structure and non relational horizontal scale. It makes application development for efficient. The best part is the high rate of availability the overall automatic replication. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Google Cloud Spanner?

For some businesses this may be an option that does not best suit thier needs because of the fact that they need something more scalable in order to run thier nodes off of at a better rate per hour than this google spanner program does. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Google Cloud Spanner:

Its cheap, effective and you should definitely try it. Give it a trial run for free with your company and after you like it, go for the full premium package Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Google Cloud Spanner solving and how is that benefiting you?

Solving problems of financial trading, ecommerce, telecom and billing, supply chain management and logistics and transportation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.