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Azure Database vs. Google Cloud Spanner

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Azure Database
Score 8.0 out of 10
N/A
Available on Microsoft's Azure, Azure Database is a managed cloud-based option for a variety of popular community and open source databases. Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Fully managed, intelligent, and scalable PostgreSQL Azure Database for MySQL - Scalable, open-source MySQL database Azure Database for MariaDB - Enterprise-ready, fully managed community MariaDB Azure's fully managed PostgreSQL database automates maintenance, patching, and updates.…N/A
Google Cloud Spanner
Score 6.3 out of 10
N/A
Google Cloud Spanner is a cloud database-as-a-service product offered as a service on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).N/A
Pricing
Azure DatabaseGoogle Cloud Spanner
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Azure DatabaseGoogle Cloud Spanner
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
Azure DatabaseGoogle Cloud Spanner
Considered Both Products
Azure Database

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Google Cloud Spanner
Anson Abraham | TrustRadius Reviewer
Anson Abraham
Data Czar
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 …
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Features
Azure DatabaseGoogle Cloud Spanner
Database-as-a-Service
Comparison of Database-as-a-Service features of Product A and Product B
Azure Database
9.8
1 Ratings
12% above category average
Google Cloud Spanner
7.8
2 Ratings
11% below category average
Automatic software patching10.01 Ratings8.82 Ratings
Database scalability9.01 Ratings8.82 Ratings
Automated backups10.01 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Database security provisions10.01 Ratings5.82 Ratings
Monitoring and metrics10.01 Ratings5.82 Ratings
Automatic host deployment10.01 Ratings7.62 Ratings
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Small Businesses
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Score 9.8 out of 10
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Score 9.8 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
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Score 9.8 out of 10
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Score 9.8 out of 10
Enterprises
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Score 9.8 out of 10
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Score 9.8 out of 10
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User Ratings
Azure DatabaseGoogle Cloud Spanner
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
(1 ratings)
7.4
(2 ratings)
User Testimonials
Azure DatabaseGoogle Cloud Spanner
Likelihood to Recommend
Microsoft
Azure Databases is suitable in situations where users require a cloud space, which holds or takes secure data and makes accessibility easy. More so, Azure Databases supports data migration, which is a professional process of data transfer. The analytical progress from Azure Databases is connected to AI power and has automated reporting.
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Sanjoy Malik
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Google
Google Cloud Spanner is suited for limitless horizontal scaling while maintaining strong consistency which needs to support ACID. NoSQL databases work in scaling but no ACID support. RDBMS support ACID, but horizontal scaling is not as great. The API it provides result in some limitations to related areas of the code, such as connection pools or database linking framework. So high # of connection pools can vary.
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Pros
Microsoft
  • Azure Databases is functional on cloud, giving the users flexibility and accessibility.
  • Azure Databases has a high storage space, and high speed processing power.
  • The tool is AI powered, hence, reputable for intelligent analysis.
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Sanjoy Malik
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Google
  • Super high availability
  • Scales automatically
  • High standard SLA
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Cons
Microsoft
  • Should develop a friendly and more intuitive dashboard and UI wizard
  • Create smart package for fair ratings/prices.
  • Improve on documentation and perfect the support response.
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Sanjoy Malik
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Google
  • Support for Views
  • Support for more databases (schemas).
  • More index types that can be supported (Functional)
  • Backups (ie table/data backup) if data is deleted or truncate by accident.
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Alternatives Considered
Microsoft
Azure Databases has the data migrating power, which is done with just a press of a button and instant results are attained. Azure Databases has the optimization of performance, which includes an AI, which is intelligent based. Azure Databases has the recent or advanced SQL power, which is easily configurable and allows a safe cloud storage.
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Sanjoy Malik
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Google
At that point, we were looking at something [that] can hold our relational database, [...] provide stable connection, and maintain high ACID transition. BigTable is for nonrelational database so it was out of our [sight] very quickly. BigQuery is a data warehouse that can hold huge amount of data but not ideal for transition. AWS RDS is [...] similar to Spanner but because most of our services are already on GCP, so we went with Spanner.
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Return on Investment
Microsoft
  • Database security is a positive ROI for users.
  • Undisputed cloud space, which control access, and smoothly accessible.
  • Automated backup, which fully declassify or eliminate data loss.
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Sanjoy Malik
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Google
  • Backups specifically if transactional data is deleted. Restoring made us lose time.
  • Sharding on Horizontal level was quick and easy. Deployment and increasing nodes is easy
  • Large dataset handling.
  • ACID compliance
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