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What do you like best about Google Cloud Spanner?

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

What do you dislike about Google Cloud Spanner?

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

What problems is Google Cloud Spanner solving and how is that benefiting you?

Our application from which various analysts read data and run large Queries to cater to Business Intel, had to be highly available as a business requirement and our application being in the P1 list of applications. Cloud Spanner solved the problem. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What is Google Cloud Spanner?

The first horizontally scalable, strongly consistent, relational database service

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Cloud Spanner is a fully managed relational database service designed to offer both strong consistency and horizontal scalability for mission-critical online transaction processing (OLTP) applications.


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Recent Google Cloud Spanner Reviews

Ishaan S.
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Ishaan S.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"A great way to deal with heavy transactional workloads"
It's the best service if you want to migrate your heavy transactional workloads to have global distribution and high scalability.
Gopi K.
GK
Gopi K.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
4.0 out of 5
"Auto patch update with no downtime and Horozontal Sharing is top reason"
Auto patch update with no downtime and Horozontal Sharing iand ACID transaction compliant,Easy to implement and Scale up , distributed transactions.
Rajesh K.
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Rajesh K.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"My Journey with Google Cloud Spanner"
The thing which i like most is that it is managed service , which really helpful to reduced the management overhead. As a have also used RDS whic...
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Sneh S.
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Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Google Cloud?

I am working on Mahindra as cloud engineer , all use case that we have on our company I will work on , like deploy application on Compute instance , GKE and pass servcie cloud run also . and data analytic part : we used cloud composer , big query , data proc cluster .. as storage we use cloud spanner , gcs , sql .. at ui and servcie side google cloud is ok , Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Google Cloud?

google cloud ui for IAM releted not good , speed also not good network side . google team need to work on documention also . google team aslo team to wrok on avilablity of instance on all region . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Google Cloud solving and how is that benefiting you?

google cloud is like all cloud . it solve problem that we have on primise . but one thing on google those problem have on other cloud aws/azure .. they already solve it . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Pratiksha N.
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What do you like best about Google Cloud?

In organization, I have been using Google Cloud Platform to migrate onprem applications. Main reason to use google cloud is it has feature like scalability, performance and, using the cloud you can reach globally,it has wide network availability all over the world. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Google Cloud?

I have been using a client side google cloud account, so it didn't debit any money from my account. But it is quite risky for the people who use their personal bank account , after free trial it might be possible some amount will deducted from your account. So user need to keep eye on the end date of free trial. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Google Cloud solving and how is that benefiting you?

Migrating on-prem application to cloud enables you to save both space and costs, previously, we have to pay for on-site servers . With the cloud, you pay cloud providers to handle the data centers and other resources rather than hosting the servers in-house on your own. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Rajesh K.
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What do you like best about Google Cloud Spanner?

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

What do you dislike about Google Cloud Spanner?

It is vendor lock- in and pricing is high on some cases. Sometime i also find that it is not best fir for all applications might not benefits from its specific features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Google Cloud Spanner solving and how is that benefiting you?

It really help for scalability, global data distribution and also help to maintain ACID properities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ravi B.
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What do you like best about Google Cloud?

As a startup focused on customer identity and financial fraud detection, we immensely like the extensive array of services Google Cloud provides. Its offerings encompass various tools, including AI and machine learning, big data analytics, databases, developer tools, and more. This comprehensive suite empowers us to develop and deploy various applications and solutions to meet our business needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Google Cloud?

GCP Complexity for Beginners. Their service outages sometimes. Unresponsive cloud console. Some of the missing services like the compressive graph database service. Terrible documentation and support plans. Especially not a beginner friendly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Google Cloud solving and how is that benefiting you?

Our company specialises in data and AI solutions, explicitly emphasising customer identity, financial fraud detection, KYC verification, and face and fingerprint detection. To tackle these challenges, we harness the power of various Google Cloud services, including BigQuery, Bigtable, Pub/Sub, Cloud Run, Cloud Functions, Vertex AI, and Document AI. By leveraging these vital Google Cloud services, we can effectively address and provide solutions for customer identity, fraud detection, KYC verification, and biometric detection requirements. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ishaan S.
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Data Science Analyst
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What do you like best about Google Cloud Spanner?

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.

What do you dislike about Google Cloud Spanner?

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.

What problems is Google Cloud Spanner solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are using Cloud Spanner yo migrate financial client's heavy transactional workloads to Cloud to improve efficiency, scalability and automation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Gopi K.
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What do you like best about Google Cloud Spanner?

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

What do you dislike about Google Cloud Spanner?

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

What problems is Google Cloud Spanner solving and how is that benefiting you?

Horizontal Scaling,managed service has driven our over all cost down. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Atul P.
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What do you like best about Google Cloud?

Best and cheaper services provided by Google cloud and with best scalability and some services and fully managed with best UI. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Google Cloud?

There are some services needs some clarity like some configuration which is blocked by Google itself. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Google Cloud solving and how is that benefiting you?

Google Cloud is solving infrastructure , platform and software level services by providing individual services with best managed infrastructure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Google Cloud Spanner?

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.

What do you dislike about Google Cloud Spanner?

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

What problems is Google Cloud Spanner solving and how is that benefiting you?

Scaling is very fast so you will get high performance. Also backend running on Google Cloud infrastructure which very secure and reliable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Cameron G.
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What do you like best about Google Cloud Spanner?

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

What do you dislike about Google Cloud Spanner?

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

What problems is Google Cloud Spanner solving and how is that benefiting you?

It provides scalability that would otherwise be hard or impossible to achieve. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Google Cloud Spanner?

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

What do you dislike about Google Cloud Spanner?

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

What problems is Google Cloud Spanner solving and how is that benefiting you?

Highly available db Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.