Amazon SimpleDB vs. Google Cloud SQL

Well suited for: Games, Chat rooms, real time software like corporate events, marathons and so. Anytime and anywhere you could use a NoSQL DB you should think of SimpleDB.

As an arduous AWS user, Amazon SimpleDB easily integrates with EC2 and other AWS module; and if you are not an AWS user, you also have a fantastic tool that will solve the problem for which you are focused.

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Although Google Cloud SQL has room for improvement by addressing a minor lack of features, its features and services keep it high among other SQL database products. It is very fast compared to others. Since it is cloud-based, maintenance is also easier. Integration capabilities are also more than expected.

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• Flexibility
• Easy to learn and use
• AWS integration

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• Highly scalable without worrying about sudden transaction explosion during peak hours.
• Highly available with multiple geographical locations and regions for nearly 0 downtime to the users.
• Extremely reliable and responsive for high latency applications due to superb networking at the core.

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• Non AWS environments
• Strict storage limit (but well we have DynamoDB for storage issues)

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• Increasing support for more database engines may enable a wider range of application needs to be met.
• Implementing and updating cutting-edge security features on a constant basis.
• Streamlining and enhancing the tools for transferring data to Google Cloud SQL from on-premises databases or other cloud providers.

It's a great product with ease of use, great scalability and high availability. There's no need to have high effort on administration. Great visibility to what happens on database like CPU, memory, IO. We can also see the performance based on query. Overall good experience and really recommend it to others.

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GCP support in general requires a support agreement. For small organizations like us, this is not affordable or reasonable. It would help if Google had a support mechanism for smaller organizations. It was a steep learning curve for us because this was our first entry into the cloud database world. Better documentation also would have helped.

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It integrates beautifully with AWS. In some projects we use SimpleDB while we use DynamoDB for others, according to the characteristics of the project. If the infrastructure is AWS, we always think of one of them.

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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 investment to get going.

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• Reduced database administration time
• Reduced data model analysis time
• Lower cost of resources in projects in general

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• With managed database system, it has given us near 100% data availability
• It has also improved web layer experience with faster processing and authentication using database fields
• Google Cloud SQL also gels up well with Google Analytics and other analytics systems for us to join up different data points and process them for deeper dives and analysis

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