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Google Cloud Spanner Reviews (36)

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4.2
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Users consistently praise the product for its high availability and horizontal scalability, making it ideal for managing large, distributed databases with minimal manual intervention. The automatic scaling and strong consistency features are particularly valued, although some users note that it can be expensive and may not suit smaller datasets.
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Kyle R.
KR
Student Administrative Assistant- Center for Student Academic Support
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Google Cloud Spanner review"
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.

Yaroslav B.
YB
Test Automation Engineer
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"It's good tool"
What do you like best about Google Cloud Spanner?

Simple UI and helpful information inside Site. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Google Cloud Spanner?

Easy way to work with DB and better than other ones. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Education Management
UE
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.
"Amazing!"
What do you like best about Google Cloud Spanner?

Just like any other product from Google, Cloud Spanner is amazing. It can handle big databases and the models it builds are great. They are visually pleasing and easy to create. Cloud Spanner is definitely faster than competitor software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Google Cloud Spanner?

To be honest, this product is a little pricy and there are other companies who make similar products for cheaper, like Amazon and Microsoft. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software
UC
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.
"Cloud Spanner - Positives and Negatives"
What do you like best about Google Cloud Spanner?

It is a distributed SQL and is consistent. It doesn't use nodes for storage and data is stored as files giving the strong consistency as opposed to eventual consistency provided by other NoSQL databases. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Google Cloud Spanner?

It doesn't have basic functions like RANK() which is essential for any database.

When I tried exploring it, it didn't have a way to export the data.

Also, it is a bit expensive Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

JH
Assistant Manager
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Google Cloud Spanner Review"
What do you like best about Google Cloud Spanner?

Strongly consistent scale-out RDBMS cluster: uses hardware assisted time synchronization to achieve data consistency. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Google Cloud Spanner?

Cloud Spanner chooses an index automatically only in rare circumstances. In particular, Cloud Spanner does not automatically choose a secondary index if the query requests any columns that are not stored in the index. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

LM
principal cloud architect
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.
"spanner , scaling easily"
What do you like best about Google Cloud Spanner?

ITs incredible to have an acid database globally distributed in a few clicks, really easy to scale globally applications Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Google Cloud Spanner?

its a blackboc, dificult obtain details of his architecture and work around, too much vendor locking Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Transportation/Trucking/Railroad
UT
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"acid for masses"
What do you like best about Google Cloud Spanner?

Consistency and cross region replication out of box. no need of application level changes to replicate data. Transaction support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Google Cloud Spanner?

latency, could do better especially the entire ecosystem is controlled by gcp

more latest features which are internally available Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Transportation/Trucking/Railroad
IT
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Reliable, Available, Maintainable and Secure"
What do you like best about Google Cloud Spanner?

Using Cloud Spanner has removed the inefficiency that existed when users are exercising an newly implemented application and now provides real-time feedback to analyze the performance of the application. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Google Cloud Spanner?

Although there is a guarantee there will be no loss of data, there is no automatic backup due to any failures or defects. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software
UC
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Robust and Reliable"
What do you like best about Google Cloud Spanner?

Scalability is a huge benefit and it has been very reliable under high workload. Built on widely and reliable distributed computing principles. Documentation and support are pretty solid. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Google Cloud Spanner?

Replication is not configurable and can limit the ability to tailor it to specific needs. It's still catching up and the community is not as strong as other services and products. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Research
UR
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Cloud Spanner"
What do you like best about Google Cloud Spanner?

Gives great performance and consistency for extremely large databases especially as an OLTP solution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Google Cloud Spanner?

The costs associated with it can get a little much for a small business or start up. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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