# Google Cloud Spanner Reviews **Vendor:** Google **Category:** [Relational Databases](https://www.g2.com/categories/relational-databases) **Average Rating:** 4.2/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 36 ## About Google Cloud Spanner The first horizontally scalable, strongly consistent, relational database service ## Google Cloud Spanner Reviews ### 1. High Availability and Effortless Scaling with Google Cloud Spanner **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** mangu d. | Database Admin, Entertainment, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 07, 2026 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Spanner?** I like the number of connections to databases and appreciate how it auto releases the database locks. I also enjoy using PostgreSQL and data streaming to BigQuery in Google Cloud Spanner. It's easy for migration, and I don't face issues related to separate licensing or needing to use Microsoft SQL Studio as I did before when using MS SQL. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Spanner?** I'm not able to track the exact logs to see which user is doing which activity. Also, I can't kill a specific user if we get stuck in the connection pool. **What problems is Google Cloud Spanner solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use Google Cloud Spanner for high availability and unlimited database connections, and I like the number of connections to databases and auto-releasing the locks. ### 2. My Journey with Google Cloud Spanner **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rajesh K. | DevOps Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 10, 2023 **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. **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. **What problems is Google Cloud Spanner solving and how is that benefiting you?** It really help for scalability, global data distribution and also help to maintain ACID properities. ### 3. A great way to deal with heavy transactional workloads **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ishaan S. | Data Science Analyst, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 13, 2024 **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. **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 **What problems is Google Cloud Spanner solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are using Cloud Spanner yo migrate financial client's heavy transactional workloads to Cloud to improve efficiency, scalability and automation. ### 4. best alternative for AWS DynamoDB at half the cost **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Neeraj K. | Software Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 10, 2023 **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. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Spanner?** Earlier it was costly but now it is cheaper than alternatives along with low latency. **What problems is Google Cloud Spanner solving and how is that benefiting you?** Our application from which various analysts read data and run large Queries to cater to Business Intel, had to be highly available as a business requirement and our application being in the P1 list of applications. Cloud Spanner solved the problem. ### 5. Auto patch update with no downtime and Horozontal Sharing is top reason **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Gopi K. | Practice Head PMO Enterprise Transformation, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 28, 2023 **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. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Spanner?** Challenging to deploy it in kubernut clusters and data back can be difficult **What problems is Google Cloud Spanner solving and how is that benefiting you?** Horizontal Scaling,managed service has driven our over all cost down. ### 6. Cloud spanner is very high performance manged service. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vishal R. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 11, 2023 **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. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Spanner?** Nothing negative about Google Cloud spanner database. **What problems is Google Cloud Spanner solving and how is that benefiting you?** Scaling is very fast so you will get high performance. Also backend running on Google Cloud infrastructure which very secure and reliable. ### 7. Google Cloud Spanner offers unique value as scalable SQL solution **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Cameron G. | Senior Software Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 09, 2023 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Spanner?** It provides unique value. It's a relational db that horizontally scales. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Spanner?** It is very pricey, so we can't use it for everything we'd like to. **What problems is Google Cloud Spanner solving and how is that benefiting you?** It provides scalability that would otherwise be hard or impossible to achieve. ### 8. A goto DB for business **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Retail | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 30, 2023 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Spanner?** Google Cloud Spanner is highly efficient and available **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Spanner?** It is expensive and lacks auto scaling beyond the nodes that we purchased **What problems is Google Cloud Spanner solving and how is that benefiting you?** Highly available db ### 9. Excellent Relation Database **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mohammad S. | Cloud Support Engineer - L2, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 19, 2022 **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. **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. **What problems is Google Cloud Spanner solving and how is that benefiting you?** With the main advantage of zero downtime, we utilised to handle encryption keys (CMEK), data-layer encryption, IAM integration for access and controls, and thorough audit logging. ### 10. Review for Google Cloud Spanner **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Aarti A. | Data Analyst, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 18, 2022 **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. **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. **Recommendations to others considering Google Cloud Spanner:** Google Cloud Spanner might be slightly tricky to the first-time user, since it has a bit steep learning curve. But once you have learned how to maneuver across the application, your work with large datasets will be easily accommodated. If you plan to migrate data from MySQL, you might face issues due to non-compliancy. **What problems is Google Cloud Spanner solving and how is that benefiting you?** The great availability provided by Google Cloud Spanner has enabled us to use it as a relational database with a lot of ease. This easily sustained the constant growth of our business. ### 11. Fully Managed RDMS with high and unlimited scaling. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** DHRUVIN M. | Platform Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 17, 2022 **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. **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. **Recommendations to others considering Google Cloud Spanner:** I strongly recommend using Google Cloud Spanner for the ones who need to grow their database on a huge scale. **What problems is Google Cloud Spanner solving and how is that benefiting you?** Well, with the normal Cloud SQL database sometimes it would be difficult to grow if you have a huge database but with the Cloud Spanner it's easy to grow with no limits and the integration is easy as well. For configuring, the Google cloud is providing their own doc as well. ### 12. Best service from google for OLTP databases which supports ACID properties **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Airlines/Aviation | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 23, 2022 **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 **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 **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. **What problems is Google Cloud Spanner solving and how is that benefiting you?** Relational database management for OLTP ### 13. Cloud spanner is nice replacement of on-premise oracle database **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Pawan K. | Bigdata Platform Architect at HCL Technologies Limited, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 14, 2022 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Spanner?** Queries speed , node scalability,multi site replication **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Spanner?** Google Cloud Spanner is not suitable for a small dataset where you perform transactions **What problems is Google Cloud Spanner solving and how is that benefiting you?** On-premise oracle Exadata replaced by google cloud spanner ### 14. GcS **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Priya A. | Security Consultant, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 10, 2022 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Spanner?** SQL database management and wide storage **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Spanner?** Consistency of GCS should be more stronger **Recommendations to others considering Google Cloud Spanner:** Start at any size and scale with no limits **What problems is Google Cloud Spanner solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps in unlimited scalability and availablity ### 15. Cloud Spanner provides the best of both worlds with a horizontally scalable relational database **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Biotechnology | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 18, 2021 **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 **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Spanner?** Spanner is quite pricey since there is nothing else like it. **What problems is Google Cloud Spanner solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have a large database that benefits from relational architecture, but we need it to be a scalable solution. ### 16. The best high scale relational database **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 17, 2021 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Spanner?** - Scalability - Performance - Latency - Perfect CLI and Console interfaces - Libraries in NodeJS, Java, .Net Core, etc. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Spanner?** - More features about adding constraints - It doesn't have transaction-based pricing (similar to FireStore) **What problems is Google Cloud Spanner solving and how is that benefiting you?** This is the main database that we use for our Saas software. ### 17. I love Google Cloud Spanner **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 02, 2019 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Spanner?** I think this is really cool and I like it a lot **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. **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. **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. ### 18. Scalable relational database **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 29, 2019 **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 **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 **What problems is Google Cloud Spanner solving and how is that benefiting you?** Database management features are par from other google sql solutions. Very limited access control and complete lack of back up ### 19. Large Relational Database **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Loren K. | Team Lead, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 27, 2018 **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. **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. **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. **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. ### 20. Great Scalable Database **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 27, 2019 **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 **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Spanner?** Cloud spanner cross region egress charge rate is quite higher than the other cloud SQL offering **What problems is Google Cloud Spanner solving and how is that benefiting you?** i have deployed and managed various cloud spanner instances on the google cloud platform for various firms as their SQL database offering ### 21. Google Cloud Spanner review **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kyle R. | Student Administrative Assistant- Center for Student Academic Support, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 24, 2019 **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. **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. **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 **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 ### 22. It's good tool **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Yaroslav B. | Test Automation Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 16, 2019 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Spanner?** Simple UI and helpful information inside Site. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Spanner?** Easy way to work with DB and better than other ones. **What problems is Google Cloud Spanner solving and how is that benefiting you?** Work with DB ### 23. Amazing! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 24, 2019 **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. **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. **Recommendations to others considering Google Cloud Spanner:** Super fast and great models but pricey. Worth it in my opinion. **What problems is Google Cloud Spanner solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am easily able to input and share data for others to comment, view and edit. There are virtually no problems others have accessing the data or with the programming being slow. It holds a lot of data without slowing down. I am able to show this data to my colleagues and show them great models for presentations and research presentations. ### 24. Cloud Spanner - Positives and Negatives **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 09, 2019 **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. **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 **What problems is Google Cloud Spanner solving and how is that benefiting you?** I tried Google Cloud Spanner for one of the Proof of Concepts. I decided not to go for it for the things I mentioned in the "What do you dislike" section. ### 25. Google Cloud Spanner Review **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jill H. | Assistant Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 24, 2019 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Spanner?** Strongly consistent scale-out RDBMS cluster: uses hardware assisted time synchronization to achieve data consistency. **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. **What problems is Google Cloud Spanner solving and how is that benefiting you?** Interleaved tables: tables can have physical dependencies with each other. Rows of a child table can be collocated with rows of the parent table. This approach speeds up lookups of relations that can be defined in the data modeling phase—for example, collocation of customers and their invoices. ### 26. spanner , scaling easily **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** luis M. | principal cloud architect, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 10, 2019 **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 **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Spanner?** its a blackboc, dificult obtain details of his architecture and work around, too much vendor locking **What problems is Google Cloud Spanner solving and how is that benefiting you?** only use it in proof of concept for now, the mayor benefit its have geoghaphicslly distributed transactions easily ### 27. acid for masses **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Transportation/Trucking/Railroad | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 09, 2019 **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. **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 **What problems is Google Cloud Spanner solving and how is that benefiting you?** consistent relational database ### 28. Reliable, Available, Maintainable and Secure **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Transportation/Trucking/Railroad | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 23, 2019 **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. **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. **Recommendations to others considering Google Cloud Spanner:** The Google Cloud Spanner is a powerful and highly effective tool. Make sure you know what you want to achieve. **What problems is Google Cloud Spanner solving and how is that benefiting you?** It provides a cost efficient solution to remove latency issues when processing data so up-to-date information for quick analysis of application implementation. ### 29. Robust and Reliable **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 10, 2019 **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. **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. **Recommendations to others considering Google Cloud Spanner:** the tutorials and code snippets on the official documentation page are helpful to start with. **What problems is Google Cloud Spanner solving and how is that benefiting you?** Storing relational data for a mobile application that requires low latency and high consistency guarantees. ### 30. Cloud Spanner **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Research | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 12, 2019 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Spanner?** Gives great performance and consistency for extremely large databases especially as an OLTP solution. **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. **Recommendations to others considering Google Cloud Spanner:** If cost is not a problem then you should definitely consider this over Cloud SQL. **What problems is Google Cloud Spanner solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is a wonderful alternative to the conventional SQL database solution. ### 31. Google Cloud Spanner as a replacement for traditional SQL database Solution **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 24, 2019 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Spanner?** Strongly consistent scale-out RDBMS cluster Cross-table transactional support **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Spanner?** You can't update primary key value Lack of an Auto-increment option or anything similar that creates a sequence for the PK field. **What problems is Google Cloud Spanner solving and how is that benefiting you?** object listing ### 32. Great database **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Games | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 18, 2019 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Spanner?** Allows for easy sharing and great control **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Spanner?** A little basic at times, and can be slow to load **What problems is Google Cloud Spanner solving and how is that benefiting you?** Making sure apps are upkept ### 33. Great product, would be awesome to not need to manage instances **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Logistics and Supply Chain | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 23, 2018 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Spanner?** I love that Cloud Spanner gives usrers a globally consistent relational DB. Spanner is awesome when used correctly **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Spanner?** The steep cost of a 3 node cluster makes it a hard sell at many clients, especially when those clients only have a small (< 10 GB) but critical data set. I would love to see pricing model like Datastore's for Spanner. Also, several people have deleted our development instances because of the position of the 'Delete' button in the cloud console. **What problems is Google Cloud Spanner solving and how is that benefiting you?** Supply chain/warehouse management. This data is mission-critical, highly relational, and must be externally consistent, which Spanner easily gives us. ### 34. Limited documentation and constantly in the BigQuery shadow **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Consumer Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 27, 2018 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Spanner?** I like the global availability and the fact that it's easy to use SQL sytnax **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Spanner?** lack of detailed use cases in the documentation. Overshadowed by BigQuery. **Recommendations to others considering Google Cloud Spanner:** understand the specific use cases and whether it's worth using vs. a more documented solution such as BigQuery **What problems is Google Cloud Spanner solving and how is that benefiting you?** global availability ### 35. Pros of google spanner **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Retail | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 23, 2018 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Spanner?** Horizontal scalability with ACID transactions. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Spanner?** Complexity of API libraries, and REST api response overhead **What problems is Google Cloud Spanner solving and how is that benefiting you?** Realtime transaction processing with variable scaling needs ### 36. strong consistency **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 01, 2018 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Spanner?** Multi regional database with awesome capabilities. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Spanner?** It does not support "Views"which is sort of unfortunate. **What problems is Google Cloud Spanner solving and how is that benefiting you?** Running queries on SQL ## Google Cloud Spanner Discussions - [How does Google Cloud Spanner work?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/how-does-google-cloud-spanner-work) - [What is GCP Cloud Spanner?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-gcp-cloud-spanner) - [What is spanner used for at Google?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-spanner-used-for-at-google) - [Which of the following are the features of Cloud Spanner?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/which-of-the-following-are-the-features-of-cloud-spanner) - [Could you please provide more information about the product and make it easily available so that all we get to know about this productuct](https://www.g2.com/discussions/could-you-please-provide-more-information-about-the-product-and-make-it-easily-available-so-that-all-we-get-to-know-about-this-productuct) - 1 upvote - [View Google Cloud Spanner pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/google-cloud-spanner/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-19+11%3A38%3A34+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=c6d613d3-6c62-4828-87df-986cb804da8a&secure%5Btoken%5D=0e449a95da7ff9a88722bfb9e4ae86c57bfa2ecb2065df368f1ef0df6128c2e1&format=llm_user) ## Google Cloud Spanner Features **Management ** - Data Schema - Query Language - ACID - Complaint - Data Replication **Configuration** - Application Performance - Orchestration - Database Monitoring - Anomaly Detection - Network Security **Support ** - Text Search - Data Types - Languages - Operating Systems **Database Administration** - Provisioning - Governance - Auditing **Security** - Database Locking - Access Control - Encryption - Authentication **Availability** - Scalability - Backup - Archiving - Indexing **Security** - Data Masking - Authentication And Single Sign-On - Data Anonymization **Performance ** - Disaster Recovery - Data Concurrency - Workload Management - Advanced Indexing - Query Optimizer **Data Management** - Data Replication - Advanced Data Analytics **Database Features** - Storage - Availability - Stability - Scalability - Security - Data Manipulation - Query Language ## Top Google Cloud Spanner Alternatives - [Amazon Aurora](https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-aurora/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (436 reviews) - [Oracle Database](https://www.g2.com/products/oracle-database/reviews) - 4.3/5.0 (927 reviews) - [PostgreSQL](https://www.g2.com/products/postgresql/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (644 reviews)