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Google Cloud Spanner vs. Google Cloud SQL

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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Google Cloud Spanner

    Score5.6 out of 10
    N/AGoogle Cloud Spanner is a cloud database-as-a-service product offered as a service on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).N/A

    Google Cloud SQL

    Score8.8 out of 10
    N/AGoogle Cloud SQL is a database-as-a-service (DBaaS) with the capability and functionality of MySQL.

    $0

    per core hour

    Pricing
    Google Cloud SpannerGoogle Cloud SQL
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    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
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Google Cloud SpannerGoogle Cloud SQL
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—Pricing varies with editions, engine, and settings, including how much storage, memory, and CPU you provision. Cloud SQL offers per-second billing.
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    Community Pulse
    Google Cloud SpannerGoogle Cloud SQL
    Considered Both Products
    Google
    Chose Google Cloud Spanner
    Spanner scales quickly compared to Amazon RDS. Azure Database is about the same as well. MongoDB can scale to horizontal scalability, however, because Mongo doesn't support full ACID, Spanner comes into that aspect. GCP Cloud SQL not as scalable as Spanner. Spanner has …
    Incentivized
    Google
    Chose Google Cloud SQL
    Kind of similar features provided against RDS. Used this because of transactional db
    Incentivized
    Chose Google Cloud SQL
    BigQuery is a great analytical database and is generally our first choice for large analytical workloads. While its performance and throughput far outperforms Google Cloud SQL but it supports a far limited dialets of SQL. Generally a significant rewrite will be needed for …
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    No answers on this topic
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    Google Cloud SpannerGoogle Cloud SQL
    Database-as-a-Service
    Comparison of Database-as-a-Service features of Google Cloud Spanner and Google Cloud SQL
    Feature
    Google Cloud Spanner
    7.8
    2 Ratings
    Google Cloud SQL
    9.3
    24 Ratings
    Automatic software patching8.82 Ratings9.612 Ratings
    Database scalability8.82 Ratings9.524 Ratings
    Automated backups10.01 Ratings9.724 Ratings
    Database security provisions5.82 Ratings9.524 Ratings
    Monitoring and metrics5.82 Ratings8.223 Ratings
    Automatic host deployment7.62 Ratings9.012 Ratings
    User Ratings
    Google Cloud SpannerGoogle Cloud SQL
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.4
    (2 ratings)
    9.5
    (24 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.9
    (6 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.4
    (4 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.4
    (6 ratings)