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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Google Cloud Spanner

    Score5.6 out of 10
    N/AGoogle Cloud Spanner is a cloud database-as-a-service product offered as a service on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).N/A

    Oracle Autonomous Database

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/AOracle Autonomous Database provides a self-driving, self-securing, self-repairing cloud service that eliminate the overhead and human errors associated with traditional database administration. Oracle Autonomous Database takes care of configuration, tuning, backup, patching, encryption, scaling, and more.N/A
    Pricing
    Google Cloud SpannerOracle Autonomous Database
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    Pricing Offerings
    Google Cloud SpannerOracle Autonomous Database
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
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    Community Pulse
    Google Cloud SpannerOracle Autonomous Database
    Considered Both Products
    Google
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    98%
    Would buy again
    47 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
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    95%
    Delivers good value for the price
    39 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
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    98%
    Happy with the feature set
    47 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    97%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    93%
    Implementation went as expected
    41 Answers
    Features
    Google Cloud SpannerOracle Autonomous Database
    Database-as-a-Service
    Comparison of Database-as-a-Service features of Google Cloud Spanner and Oracle Autonomous Database
    Feature
    Google Cloud Spanner
    7.8
    2 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Oracle Autonomous Database
    -
    Ratings
    Automatic software patching8.82 Ratings00 Ratings
    Database scalability8.82 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automated backups10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Database security provisions5.82 Ratings00 Ratings
    Monitoring and metrics5.82 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automatic host deployment7.62 Ratings00 Ratings
    Database Development
    Comparison of Database Development features of Google Cloud Spanner and Oracle Autonomous Database
    Feature
    Google Cloud Spanner
    -
    Ratings
    Oracle Autonomous Database
    7.2
    24 Ratings
    17% below category average
    Version control tools00 Ratings6.213 Ratings
    Test data generation00 Ratings5.714 Ratings
    Performance optimization tools00 Ratings8.224 Ratings
    Schema maintenance00 Ratings9.023 Ratings
    Database change management00 Ratings7.015 Ratings
    Database Administration
    Comparison of Database Administration features of Google Cloud Spanner and Oracle Autonomous Database
    Feature
    Google Cloud Spanner
    -
    Ratings
    Oracle Autonomous Database
    8.3
    25 Ratings
    3% above category average
    User management00 Ratings9.024 Ratings
    Database security00 Ratings9.124 Ratings
    Database status reporting00 Ratings9.025 Ratings
    Change management00 Ratings6.216 Ratings
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    MongoDB Atlas
    Score7.8 out of 10
    DBeaver
    Score8.6 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Azure Database
    Score8.8 out of 10
    DBeaver
    Score8.6 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Google Cloud SQL
    Score8.7 out of 10
    DBeaver
    Score8.6 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Google Cloud SpannerOracle Autonomous Database
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.4
    (2 ratings)
    8.5
    (52 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    -
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    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Google Cloud SpannerOracle Autonomous Database
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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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    Oracle
    Pro - Stability. Does everything anyone could need. If it's not there it will be on the next update. There is plenty of support for it. It's been around for a long time and it's reliable. The support is well documented and has a great reputation. Cons - Errors have been found in the documentation provided by Oracle with guidelines, etc. Oracles salespeople have a reputation of being obnoxious and condescending.
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    Pros
    Google
    • Super high availability
    • Scales automatically
    • High standard SLA
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    Oracle
    • Robust - this product doesn't have a lot of downtime. It's less prone to errors than some other tools I've worked with.
    • Scalable - we can keep adding more things to it. We haven't hit any roadblocks when we've tried to do more with our database.
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    Cons
    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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    Oracle
    • There is no access to the physical host of the DB. This is expected from a managed DB. Everything must be done through the console or via API calls. This is a new learning curve for the DBAs.
    • Due to the lack of physical host access, certain features are not supported, such as Transportable tablespaces and Oracle LogMiner.
    • Certain special data types, (such as XMLType) are not allowed; be sure the app vendor certifies their product on this platform.
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Google
    No answers on this topic
    Oracle
    Because it does exactly what we need: it enables us to manage our development and testing database environments in a quick and simple way without requiring support from a database administrators team.
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    Usability
    Google
    No answers on this topic
    Oracle
    The product is continuously evolving and new features are added frequently. Management options through the OCI (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure) console and through the command line and API are being enhanced frequently.
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    Alternatives Considered
    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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    Oracle
    I found Oracle Autonomous Database very secure to store data and private information.I always feel secure with Oracle Autonomous Databases disaster recovery features.It is very effective to build applications for mobile and desktop devices lesser code using a low code development framework namely Oracle Application Express (ApEx).
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    Return on Investment
    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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    Oracle
    • Oracle Autonomous Database has a wide range of warehouses, which is competent and of high performance.
    • The transactional processing power that Oracle Autonomous Database outlines are completely important and digital.
    • The efficiency of Oracle Autonomous Database data encryption fosters security measures, a form that demands more threat detectors.
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    Oracle Autonomous Database Screenshots

    Screenshot of Oracle Autonomous Database is supported on Shared or Dedicated Exadata InfrastructureScreenshot of Oracle Autonomous Database supports workload-optimized cloud services for Data Warehouse, Transaction Processing,  JSON centric applicationsScreenshot of Oracle Autonomous Database supports  both License Included and Bring Your Own Licensing (BYOL) with  Yearly and Pay As You Go subscription pricingScreenshot of Oracle Autonomous Database provides built-in development  tools such as SQL Developer web, Performance Hub, APIs for data managementScreenshot of Oracle Autonomous Database provides native shell for API driven development