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    Overview
    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 MySQL Cloud Service

    Score7.1 out of 10
    N/AOracle MySQL Cloud Service is an enterprise-grade database-as-a-service (including automated database management) offering of MySQL.N/A
    Pricing
    Google Cloud SpannerOracle MySQL Cloud Service
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Google Cloud SpannerOracle MySQL Cloud Service
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Features
    Google Cloud SpannerOracle MySQL Cloud Service
    Database-as-a-Service
    Comparison of Database-as-a-Service features of Google Cloud Spanner and Oracle MySQL Cloud Service
    Feature
    Google Cloud Spanner
    7.8
    2 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Oracle MySQL Cloud Service
    8.7
    1 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Automatic software patching8.82 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Database scalability8.82 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Automated backups10.01 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Database security provisions5.82 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Monitoring and metrics5.82 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Automatic host deployment7.62 Ratings8.01 Ratings
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    Google Cloud SpannerOracle MySQL Cloud Service
    Small Businesses
    MongoDB Atlas
    Score7.8 out of 10
    MongoDB Atlas
    Score7.8 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Azure Database
    Score8.8 out of 10
    Azure Database
    Score8.8 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Google Cloud SQL
    Score8.7 out of 10
    Google Cloud SQL
    Score8.7 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Google Cloud SpannerOracle MySQL Cloud Service
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.4
    (2 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Google Cloud SpannerOracle MySQL Cloud Service
    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
    It is very scalable and it gives us backup for everything. Because of this feature, we (as a developer) can do any R&D if required. It is very stable so we can get any type of help. It has a recovery feature also which we used recently for my project. It is very easy to recover.
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    Pros
    Google
    • Super high availability
    • Scales automatically
    • High standard SLA
    Incentivized
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    Oracle
    • Oracle database has ability to store large scale of data.
    • It can support any kind of scenario with any label of system.
    • Encryption and security is the key features of Oracle database 12c.
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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
    • It has some issues [when] performing local unit testing in personal edition.
    • It is costly if we will go for cloud.
    • Need license for some features.
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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
    It has the most stable database. It smoothly supports [a] huge [amount of] data. Security-wise it is best among them. It is a very large community and has well-defined documentation, which can support [during the] implementation of the Oracle database. We can easily scale up servers whenever [we] change our requirements. Oracle12c is best for large-scale projects like banking and retails.
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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
    • It has ability to handle [a] huge [amount of] data and give [the] best performance
    • Easy to write PL/SQA queries
    • Secure and encryption option
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