Google Cloud Spanner Reviews & Product Details

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Strongly consistent scale-out RDBMS cluster

Cross-table transactional support Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

You can't update primary key value

Lack of an Auto-increment option or anything similar that creates a sequence for the PK field. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.