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Google Cloud Spanner vs. SkySQL DBaaS

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Google Cloud Spanner
Score 5.6 out of 10
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Google Cloud Spanner is a cloud database-as-a-service product offered as a service on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).N/A
SkySQL DBaaS
Score 10.0 out of 10
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SkySQL is a serverless cloud DBaaS platform designed for MySQL and MariaDB workloads. With a focus on scalability and multi-cloud flexibility, SkySQL helps businesses manage their databases efficiently. With integrated AI Agents, SkySQL makes it easier for companies to embed natural language interfaces into their apps and communicate with other system AI agents that need to query the database.N/A
Pricing
Google Cloud SpannerSkySQL DBaaS
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Google Cloud SpannerSkySQL DBaaS
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
Google Cloud SpannerSkySQL DBaaS
Considered Both Products
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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Anonymous
Chose Google Cloud Spanner
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 …
SkySQL DBaaS

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Features
Google Cloud SpannerSkySQL DBaaS
Database-as-a-Service
Comparison of Database-as-a-Service features of Product A and Product B
Google Cloud Spanner
7.8
Ratings
8% below category average
SkySQL DBaaS
-
Ratings
Automatic software patching8.80 Ratings00 Ratings
Database scalability8.80 Ratings00 Ratings
Automated backups10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Database security provisions5.80 Ratings00 Ratings
Monitoring and metrics5.80 Ratings00 Ratings
Automatic host deployment7.60 Ratings00 Ratings
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Google Cloud SpannerSkySQL DBaaS
Small Businesses
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Score 7.4 out of 10
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Score 7.4 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
IBM Cloudant
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Score 7.4 out of 10
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Score 7.4 out of 10
Enterprises
IBM Cloudant
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Score 7.4 out of 10
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Score 7.4 out of 10
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User Ratings
Google Cloud SpannerSkySQL DBaaS
Likelihood to Recommend
7.4
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User Testimonials
Google Cloud SpannerSkySQL DBaaS
Likelihood to Recommend
If you have a large relational database and it is growing fast on daily basis, and if you have a strong need in ACID across all your clusters, and most importantly, if you need to maintain high availability in a large region, Google Cloud Spanner can be a very good choice.
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Pros
  • Super high availability
  • Scales automatically
  • High standard SLA
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Cons
  • 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.
Anson Abraham | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Alternatives Considered
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 more functionality than MongoDB and Amazon RDS & Azure Databases.
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Return on Investment
  • 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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