Google Cloud SQL vs. Azure SQL Database

Google Cloud SQL

Azure SQL Database

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
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
Azure SQL Database	Score8.9 out of 10	N/A	Azure SQL Database is Microsoft's relational database as a service (DBaaS).	$0.50 Per Hour

Pricing

Google Cloud SQL

Azure SQL Database

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

2 vCORE: $0.5044
Per Hour
6 vCORE: $1.5131
Per Hour
10 vCORE: $2.52
Per Hour

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

No setup fee

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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Key User Insights
	Google Cloud SQL	Azure SQL Database
Considered Both Products	Google Shireen Shahab Web Developer in Information Technology at EDII Software and Solutions (Information Technology & Services, 51-200 employees) Chose Google Cloud SQL When comparing cost, Google Cloud SQL typically offers a more straightforward and versatile plan than Azure SQL Database. Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL is a serverless solution provided by Google Cloud SQL that automatically modifies resources according to workload. For customers … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Google Cloud SQL Google SQL was great as a first SQL provision. It quickly enabled the apps to be built and scaled as needed for a while. It was robust and adaptable as needed and easy to export as needed when ready, depending on growth. Cost-wise, it's a good choice and requires little … Incentivized Helpful? Deepansh Daga Enterprise Architect in Information Technology at TIAA (Financial Services, 10,001+ employees) Chose Google Cloud SQL I have used only Google Cloud SQL so far. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Google Cloud SQL At first, we choose Google Cloud SQL only for demo purposes. It is so easy to set up and It is fully managed. we have worked with Azure SQL as well but Google SQL is more simple to use and It fully secure, reliable, provides high availability, and very Low Latency. Incentivized Helpful? Niloofar Keshvari Nia IT Operations and Support Specialist in Information Technology at AZEREX LLC. (Information Technology & Services, 1-10 employees) Chose Google Cloud SQL Easier learning, simple features and settings with a very user-friendly application environment and flexible prices make Google Cloud [SQL] a pioneering option over competitors Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Google Cloud SQL Google Cloud SQL is just as good as the other guys. We were already invested in GCP, which made the choice very easy. We did not want to start fresh in AWS or Azure. We used our existing GCP setup and just added Cloud SQL. It's unfortunate that companies continue to send people … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Google Cloud SQL There are many options for cloud-hosted dedicated SQL instances. In many ways, simply moving from software and server-based database to a dedicated cloud database is just generally good. All hosts provide some sort of scaling and backup, and all separate the server management … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Google Cloud SQL The Google Cloud SQL offering fits into our development stack and was a clean replacement for our MySQL database. If we had been using SQL Server instead, then the offering from Azure would have made more sense. I have used both in the past and both work well, with GCP being … Incentivized Helpful? Satyam Pandey Associate software developer in Information Technology at Panamoure (Information Technology & Services, 51-200 employees) Chose Google Cloud SQL As I used Google Cloud SQL it's performance is very good and it's ui ux is as per the user demand. Apart from it the backend is very strong which makes it more usable tools as it gives or run the query in very minimal time. Yes there has to be some work on security and … Incentivized Helpful?	Microsoft Verified User Chose Azure SQL Database We looked at Google Cloud SQL and Amazon RDS services, but we did not want to switch to a different structure from the system we currently use. Incentivized Helpful? Rishabh Khanna Software Engineer in Information Technology at MothersonSumi INfotech & Designs Ltd. (MIND) (Computer Software, 501-1000 employees) Chose Azure SQL Database It is very easy to setup SQL database on Azure. one can always refer to their documentation for best practices. It is highly available and scalable. It is cheaper than its alternatives and provide better performance than others. As we are using many other services of Azure for … Incentivized Helpful?
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Features

Google Cloud SQL

Azure SQL Database

Comparison of Database-as-a-Service features of Google Cloud SQL and Azure SQL Database
Feature	Google Cloud SQL 9.3 24 Ratings	Azure SQL Database 9.2 28 Ratings
Automatic software patching	9.612 Ratings	9.026 Ratings
Database scalability	9.524 Ratings	9.028 Ratings
Automated backups	9.724 Ratings	10.028 Ratings
Database security provisions	9.524 Ratings	9.028 Ratings
Monitoring and metrics	8.223 Ratings	8.027 Ratings
Automatic host deployment	9.012 Ratings	10.023 Ratings

User Ratings
	Google Cloud SQL	Azure SQL Database
Likelihood to Recommend	9.5 (24 ratings)	8.0 (28 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.0 (1 ratings)	8.0 (1 ratings)
Usability	7.9 (6 ratings)	9.0 (1 ratings)
Support Rating	6.4 (4 ratings)	9.0 (5 ratings)
Ease of integration	6.4 (6 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

Google Cloud SQL vs. Azure SQL Database

Google Cloud SQL

Azure SQL Database

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