--- title: Google Cloud SQL Reviews meta_title: 'Google Cloud SQL Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 367 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Google Cloud SQL works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.5 review_count: 367 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-08-01' parent_category: name: Database Software url: https://www.g2.com/categories/database-software --- # Google Cloud SQL Reviews **Vendor:** Google **Category:** [Relational Databases](https://www.g2.com/categories/relational-databases) **Average Rating:** 4.5/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 367 ## About Google Cloud SQL Cloud SQL is a fully-managed managed relational database service for MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQL Server with rich extension collections, configuration flags, and developer ecosystems. ## Google Cloud SQL Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users appreciate the **automated management** of Google Cloud SQL, which saves time and enhances scalability and reliability. (22 reviews) - Users value the **seamless integration** of Google Cloud SQL with Google Cloud services, enhancing efficiency and scalability. (21 reviews) - Users love the **ease of use** of Google Cloud SQL, making database management straightforward and hassle-free. (20 reviews) - Users appreciate the **easy integrations** of Google Cloud SQL, enhancing efficiency and convenience for cloud-based database management. (20 reviews) - Users praise the **scalability** of Google Cloud SQL, enjoying its seamless integration and automation for efficient database management. (19 reviews) - Users appreciate the **straightforward user interface** and extensive features of Google Cloud SQL for easier database management. (16 reviews) - Setup Ease (16 reviews) - Users love the **automatic backup feature** of Google Cloud SQL, making database management effortless and reliable. (14 reviews) - Implementation Ease (13 reviews) - Users praise the **high security** of Google Cloud SQL, ensuring the safety of their databases with multiple layers of protection. (13 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users find Google Cloud SQL to be **expensive** , especially regarding storage, traffic, and pricing for smaller projects. (17 reviews) - Users feel that the **cost concerns** of Google Cloud SQL can be burdensome, especially for small businesses and individuals. (7 reviews) - Users often face **scaling issues** with Google Cloud SQL, including slow support and cost escalation during vertical scaling. (6 reviews) - Users find the **complex pricing** difficult to understand, making cost forecasting and optimization challenging. (5 reviews) - Users find the **pricing confusion** in Google Cloud SQL challenging, desiring clearer estimates and better forecasting tools. (5 reviews) - Slow Performance (5 reviews) - Unclear Pricing (5 reviews) - Downtime Issues (4 reviews) - Users find **feature limitations** in Google Cloud SQL, impacting usability and reducing overall satisfaction with the service. (4 reviews) - Latency Issues (4 reviews) ## Google Cloud SQL Reviews ### 1. A good Software framework with a good functionality. **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer & Network Security | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 14, 2023 **What do you like best about Google Cloud SQL?** Google cloud SQL is a good software for SQL with good cloud interface with fast processing and easy to use models. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud SQL?** I didn't like the learning curve as I have to know a lot about all the things about the functions **What problems is Google Cloud SQL solving and how is that benefiting you?** There are distrubuted databases do relational databases can be stored easily hence it's easy to use. ### 2. Accessible storage solution **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Lori R. | Teacher / SPED Designee, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 30, 2023 **What do you like best about Google Cloud SQL?** I like that Google Cloud is intuitive to use, and accessible from just about any device. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud SQL?** I dislike that it is pretty generic, and not all documents download in the format I want. **What problems is Google Cloud SQL solving and how is that benefiting you?** Google cloud allows for everyone to access what they need from any workstation or platform. ### 3. SQL available anywhere and accessible remotely **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 17, 2023 **What do you like best about Google Cloud SQL?** Running SQL queries fast and available anywhere remotely **What do you dislike about Google Cloud SQL?** SQL is at Cloud si its charges are more as compared to native sql **What problems is Google Cloud SQL solving and how is that benefiting you?** Fast querying and availablity ### 4. Stability, performance **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Assad R. | Senior IT Consultant, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 29, 2023 **What do you like best about Google Cloud SQL?** Cloudsql is really easy to setup, and performs very well with large dataset **What do you dislike about Google Cloud SQL?** Migration and replication is challenging **What problems is Google Cloud SQL solving and how is that benefiting you?** Performance ### 5. Review for Google cloud SQL **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Shubham S. | DevOps Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 01, 2023 **What do you like best about Google Cloud SQL?** Google cloud SQL is very flexible to setup DB with cloud applications development. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud SQL?** I didn't find anything to dislike in this **What problems is Google Cloud SQL solving and how is that benefiting you?** It's easy to migrate with prod db to cloud SQL with no downtime. ### 6. Google Cloud **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 20, 2021 **What do you like best about Google Cloud SQL?** The best thing is its simplicity in migration and connection tools. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud SQL?** Few features in MySQL are missing, expected to be implemeted. Also, caching and indexing data need to be developed. **What problems is Google Cloud SQL solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am using RDBMS using PostgreSQL in google cloud for one of the products. ### 7. Replacement for Amazon Web Services **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 30, 2018 **What do you like best about Google Cloud SQL?** The user friendliness and the supporting document for using the services and integration with applications is very simple. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud SQL?** The execution of commands is slow as compared to the AWS. **Recommendations to others considering Google Cloud SQL:** Use it wisely as prices are cheaper as compared to AWS and the integration is easy and documentation is done very properly. **What problems is Google Cloud SQL solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am developing a web application where I store the longitudes and latitudes of the users location to the SQL database and then fetch it to show it next time on the users map using Google API. Request and response rate is required to be fast when large amount of request are sent over time and integration should be simple. ## Google Cloud SQL Discussions - [What are the features of Cloud SQL?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-are-the-features-of-cloud-sql) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [What is Google Cloud SQL used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-google-cloud-sql-used-for) - 2 comments - [How much is Google Cloud SQL?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/how-much-is-google-cloud-sql) - 2 comments - [What is Cloud SQL?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-cloud-sql) - 3 comments - [View Google Cloud SQL pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/google-cloud-sql/reviews?filters%5Bnps_score%5D%5B%5D=3§ion=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-08-03+02%3A53%3A08+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=8336a14f-f6a2-44ab-8ab8-eb0bf20fb16f&secure%5Btoken%5D=e78ad4cece84c70deb913f6648aaeca1a033555ba44ecc6f7353f2ff0d106343&format=llm_user) ## Google Cloud SQL Integrations - [Aiven for PostgreSQL](https://www.g2.com/products/aiven-for-postgresql/reviews) - [AWS Cloud9](https://www.g2.com/products/aws-cloud9/reviews) - [Google Cloud BigQuery](https://www.g2.com/products/google-cloud-bigquery/reviews) - [Google Cloud Console](https://www.g2.com/products/google-cloud-console/reviews) - [Google Cloud Run](https://www.g2.com/products/google-cloud-run/reviews) - [Google Sheets for Confluence - Workspace Connector](https://www.g2.com/products/google-sheets-for-confluence-workspace-connector/reviews) - [Jira](https://www.g2.com/products/jira/reviews) - [MySQL](https://www.g2.com/products/mysql/reviews) - [PostgreSQL](https://www.g2.com/products/postgresql/reviews) - [Python](https://www.g2.com/products/python/reviews) - [Salesforce Headless 360 Platform (formerly Salesforce Platform)](https://www.g2.com/products/agentforce-360-platform-formerly-salesforce-platform/reviews) - [SQL Developer](https://www.g2.com/products/sql-developer/reviews) - [Visual Studio Code](https://www.g2.com/products/visual-studio-code/reviews) ## Google Cloud SQL Features **Management** - Data dictionary - Data Replication - Query Language - Data Modeling - Performance Analysis **Management ** - Data Schema - Query Language - ACID - Complaint - Data Replication **Configuration** - Application Performance - Orchestration - Database Monitoring - Anomaly Detection - Network Security **Maintenance** - Data Migration - Backup and Recovery - Multi-User Environment **Support ** - Text Search - Data Types - Languages - Operating Systems **Database Administration** - Provisioning - Governance - Auditing **Security** - Data Encryption - User Access Control **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 SQL Alternatives - [Supabase](https://www.g2.com/products/supabase-supabase/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (136 reviews) - [Microsoft SQL Server](https://www.g2.com/products/microsoft-sql-server/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (2,127 reviews) - [Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)](https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-relational-database-service-rds/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (865 reviews)