DigitalOcean vs. Google Cloud SQL

DigitalOcean

Google Cloud SQL

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
DigitalOcean	Score8.9 out of 10	N/A	DigitalOcean is an infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) platform from the company of the same name headquartered in New York. It is known for its support of managed Kubernetes clusters and “droplets” feature.	$5 Starting Price Per Month
Google Cloud SQL	Score8.8 out of 10	N/A	Google Cloud SQL is a database-as-a-service (DBaaS) with the capability and functionality of MySQL.	$0 per core hour

Pricing

DigitalOcean

Google Cloud SQL

1GB-16GB: $5.00
Starting Price Per Month
8GB-160GB: $60.00
Starting Price Per Month

License - Express: $0
per core hour
License - Web: $0.01134
per core hour
Storage - for backups: $.08
per month per GB
HA Storage - for backups: $.08
per month per GB
Storage - HDD storage capacity: $.09
per month per GB
License - Standard: $0.13
per core hour
Storage - SSD storage capacity: $.17
per month per GB
HA Storage - HDD storage capacity: $.18
per month per GB
HA Storage - SSD storage capacity: $.34
per month per GB
License - Enterprise: $0.47
per core hour
Memory: $5.11
per month per GB
HA Memory: $10.22
per month per GB
vCPUs: $30.15
per month per vCPU
HA vCPUs: $60.30
per month per vCPU

Pricing Offerings
DigitalOcean	Google Cloud SQL
Free Trial
No	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

No setup fee

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Pricing varies with editions, engine, and settings, including how much storage, memory, and CPU you provision. Cloud SQL offers per-second billing.

Community Pulse
Key User Insights
	DigitalOcean	Google Cloud SQL
Considered Both Products	DigitalOcean Leonel Quinteros Director of Technology in Information Technology at Global Brigades, Inc. (Non-Profit Organization Management, 11-50 employees) Chose DigitalOcean Digital Ocean is easier to start with and was a great choice for that project. On other projects, I may choose Google Cloud products because of their more complex product offerings and advanced features. Products like Storage or Pub/Sub isn't available on Digital Ocean and the … Incentivized Helpful? Tyler Longren IT Consultant in Information Technology at I-35 Spirits (Computer Software, 1-10 employees) Chose DigitalOcean DigitalOcean isn't nearly as robust as Google Cloud. DigitalOcean provides VPSs, as does Google Cloud. However, Google Cloud offers many other products as well. ChunkHost is very similar to DigitalOcean, but doesn't have the infrastructure that DigitalOcean has. Geographical … Incentivized Helpful?	Google Leonel Quinteros Director of Technology in Information Technology at Global Brigades, Inc. (Philanthropy, 51-200 employees) Chose Google Cloud SQL Google Cloud SQL is very similar to other cloud provider options. AWS and DigitalOcean are direct competitors, While Azure is focusing on their own products. At cloud provider level, it's a matter of choosing the provider, and this product will not play a significant role on … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Google Cloud SQL DigitalOcean Managed database is relatively less costly compared to Google Cloud SQL database. Google Cloud SQL service is well integrated with other Google Cloud Platform services such as IAM which enables fine grain access to team members. Incentivized Helpful?
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	Happy with the feature set
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Features

DigitalOcean

Google Cloud SQL

Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of DigitalOcean and Google Cloud SQL
Feature	DigitalOcean 8.3 33 Ratings	Google Cloud SQL - Ratings
Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime	9.228 Ratings	00 Ratings
Dynamic scaling	9.029 Ratings	00 Ratings
Elastic load balancing	7.021 Ratings	00 Ratings
Pre-configured templates	10.027 Ratings	00 Ratings
Monitoring tools	10.032 Ratings	00 Ratings
Pre-defined machine images	7.531 Ratings	00 Ratings
Operating system support	8.331 Ratings	00 Ratings
Security controls	9.029 Ratings	00 Ratings
Automation	5.03 Ratings	00 Ratings

Comparison of Database-as-a-Service features of DigitalOcean and Google Cloud SQL
Feature	DigitalOcean - Ratings	Google Cloud SQL 9.3 24 Ratings
Automatic software patching	00 Ratings	9.612 Ratings
Database scalability	00 Ratings	9.524 Ratings
Automated backups	00 Ratings	9.724 Ratings
Database security provisions	00 Ratings	9.524 Ratings
Monitoring and metrics	00 Ratings	8.223 Ratings
Automatic host deployment	00 Ratings	9.012 Ratings

User Ratings
	DigitalOcean	Google Cloud SQL
Likelihood to Recommend	8.2 (33 ratings)	9.5 (24 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.0 (2 ratings)	9.0 (1 ratings)
Usability	8.0 (7 ratings)	7.9 (6 ratings)
Availability	10.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Performance	9.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Support Rating	8.8 (9 ratings)	6.4 (4 ratings)
Ease of integration	- (0 ratings)	6.4 (6 ratings)
Product Scalability	10.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

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