Google Cloud Spanner Reviews & Product Details

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The thing which I like most is that it is a managed service, which is really helpful to reduce the management overhead. I have also used RDS provided by AWS, but I love to use Google Cloud Spanner most because of ease of integration, ease of use, strong global transactions, and horizontal scalability with strong consistency. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is vendor lock-in and pricing is high in some cases. Sometimes I also find that it is not the best fit for all applications and might not benefit from its specific features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's the best service if you want to migrate your heavy transactional workloads to have global distribution and high scalability. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It has very limited use cases like financial systems or supply chain management. Also, I would love for it to have analytical capabilities Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

High performance and availability along with scalability. No overhead of maintenance and patching. It automatically handles sharding, replication and transaction processing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Earlier it was costly but now it is cheaper than alternatives along with low latency. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Auto patch update with no downtime and Horizontal Sharing and ACID transaction compliant, Easy to implement and Scale up, distributed transactions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Challenging to deploy it in Kubernetes clusters and data backup can be difficult Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We don't need to worry about infra and database servers configuration. Just create a instance and deploy a database. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nothing negative about Google Cloud spanner database. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It provides unique value. It's a relational db that horizontally scales. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is very pricey, so we can't use it for everything we'd like to. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Google Cloud Spanner is highly efficient and available Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is expensive and lacks auto scaling beyond the nodes that we purchased Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.