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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Google Cloud SQL

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/AGoogle Cloud SQL is a database-as-a-service (DBaaS) with the capability and functionality of MySQL.

    $0

    per core hour

    Looker Studio

    Score8.2 out of 10
    N/ALooker Studio is a data visualization platform that transforms data into meaningful presentations and dashboards with customized reporting tools.

    $9

    per month per user per project

    Pricing
    Google Cloud SQLLooker Studio
    Editions & Modules
    License - Express
    $0
    per core hour
    License - Web
    $0.01134
    per core hour
    Storage - for backups
    $.08
    per month per GB
    HA Storage - for backups
    $.08
    per month per GB
    Storage - HDD storage capacity
    $.09
    per month per GB
    License - Standard
    $0.13
    per core hour
    Storage - SSD storage capacity
    $.17
    per month per GB
    HA Storage - HDD storage capacity
    $.18
    per month per GB
    HA Storage - SSD storage capacity
    $.34
    per month per GB
    License - Enterprise
    $0.47
    per core hour
    Memory
    $5.11
    per month per GB
    HA Memory
    $10.22
    per month per GB
    vCPUs
    $30.15
    per month per vCPU
    HA vCPUs
    $60.30
    per month per vCPU
    Looker Studio Pro
    $9
    per month per user per project
    Looker Studio
    No charge
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Google Cloud SQLLooker Studio
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsPricing varies with editions, engine, and settings, including how much storage, memory, and CPU you provision. Cloud SQL offers per-second billing.—
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    Community Pulse
    Google Cloud SQLLooker Studio
    Considered Both Products
    Google
    Chose Google Cloud SQL
    IBM DB2
    AWS RDS
    Azure SQL Database
    Incentivized
    Google
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    32 Answers
    95%
    Would buy again
    40 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    32 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    38 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    32 Answers
    95%
    Happy with the feature set
    40 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    24 Answers
    97%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    31 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    29 Answers
    89%
    Implementation went as expected
    33 Answers
    Features
    Google Cloud SQLLooker Studio
    Database-as-a-Service
    Comparison of Database-as-a-Service features of Google Cloud SQL and Looker Studio
    Feature
    Google Cloud SQL
    8.9
    35 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Looker Studio
    -
    Ratings
    Automatic software patching9.612 Ratings00 Ratings
    Database scalability8.635 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automated backups8.735 Ratings00 Ratings
    Database security provisions8.535 Ratings00 Ratings
    Monitoring and metrics9.034 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automatic host deployment9.012 Ratings00 Ratings
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Google Cloud SQL and Looker Studio
    Feature
    Google Cloud SQL
    -
    Ratings
    Looker Studio
    7.0
    62 Ratings
    14% below category average
    Pixel Perfect reports00 Ratings6.643 Ratings
    Customizable dashboards00 Ratings7.361 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates00 Ratings7.259 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Google Cloud SQL and Looker Studio
    Feature
    Google Cloud SQL
    -
    Ratings
    Looker Studio
    7.7
    61 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Drill-down analysis00 Ratings6.851 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities00 Ratings7.057 Ratings
    Integration with R or other statistical packages00 Ratings7.129 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration00 Ratings9.759 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Google Cloud SQL and Looker Studio
    Feature
    Google Cloud SQL
    -
    Ratings
    Looker Studio
    8.1
    60 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Publish to Web00 Ratings8.453 Ratings
    Publish to PDF00 Ratings8.753 Ratings
    Report Versioning00 Ratings8.139 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling00 Ratings7.942 Ratings
    Delivery to Remote Servers00 Ratings7.524 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Google Cloud SQL and Looker Studio
    Feature
    Google Cloud SQL
    -
    Ratings
    Looker Studio
    6.6
    60 Ratings
    16% below category average
    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)00 Ratings7.160 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization00 Ratings7.757 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics00 Ratings5.330 Ratings
    Pattern Recognition and Data Mining00 Ratings6.36 Ratings
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    Score7.8 out of 10
    Chartio (discontinued)
    Score7.5 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Azure Database
    Score8.8 out of 10
    Jet Reports
    Score9.5 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Google BigQuery
    Score8.8 out of 10
    Kibana
    Score8.4 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Google Cloud SQLLooker Studio
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.4
    (35 ratings)
    8.3
    (63 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    8.6
    (17 ratings)
    8.4
    (14 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.1
    (5 ratings)
    6.7
    (10 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    9.3
    (12 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Google Cloud SQLLooker Studio
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Google
    Does what it promises well, for instance, as a sidecar for the main enterprise data warehouse. However, I would not recommend using it as the main data warehouse, particularly due to the heavy business logic, as other dedicated tools are more suitable for ensuring scalable operations in terms of change management and multi-developer adjustments.
    Incentivized
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    Google
    Visualizing cross-channel campaign performance can blend data from a few different sources to compare performance metrics like spend, clicks, and conversions side-by-side in a single view, which helps in quick budget reallocation decisions. When dealing with massive volumes of data (millions of rows) or highly complex queries, Looker Studio dashboards can become slow, laggy, or even crash. Performance issues are a frequent complaint when working with large datasets, making it unsuitable for enterprise-level companies
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    Pros
    Google
    • It has a easily and user understandable interface which provides it every necessary feature to come up with.
    • It's backend is very strong that can help us to run big quieres without any hesitation.
    • It's integration with other tools are one of the powerful feature which makes it more suitable to use.
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    Google
    • Breath of data - the number of ways to interrogate the data is endless, and the options to view metrics alongside each other make for comprehensive datasets.
    • Data visualisation and customisation - the options for presenting data and separating out across pages allow for clean visuals and segmented information.
    • Easy shareability/usability - a quick and simple tool to introduce colleagues to, and easy to grant access for them to be able to view the data, without having to understand the setup itself.
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    Cons
    Google
    • 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.
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    Google
    • It needs better handling of complex logic. We often need workarounds to perform complex custom calculations, and it can be really unpleasant at times.
    • Felt it got slow with a larger data set, and in one minor report, we had to set up time filters so that calculations during spikes could be traced more quickly.
    • Compare to competition they need to improve with notification things.
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Google
    It fits the current needs and bandwith of out lean organization.
    Incentivized
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    Google
    It is the simplest and least expensive way for us to automate our reporting at this time. I like the ability to customize literally everything about each report, and the ability to send out reports automatically in emails. The only issue we have been having recently is a technical glitch in the automatic email report. Sadly, there is almost no support for this tool from Google, but is also free, so that is important to take into consideration
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    Usability
    Google
    As with other cloud tools, users must learn a new terminology to navigate the various tools and configurations, and understand Google Cloud's configuration structure to perform even the most basic operations. So the learning curve is quite steep, but after a few months, it gets easier to maintain.
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    Google
    Looker Studio is easy to use, and it offers a sufficient variety of predefined visualizations to choose from. It's easy for us, and anyone can set up basic reporting without extensive data visualization skills. The interface layout is easy to understand, and it doesn't take long to get used to.
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    Support Rating
    Google
    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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    Google
    I give it a lower support rating because it seems like our Dev team hasn't gotten the support they need to set up our database to connect. Seems like we hit a roadblock and the project got put on pause for dev. That sucks for me because it is harder to get the dev team to focus on it if they don't get the help they need to set it up.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Google
    Unlike other products, Google Cloud SQL has very flexible features that allow it to be selected for a free trial account so that the product can be analyzed and tested before purchasing it. Integration capabilities with most of the web services tools are easier regarding Google Cloud SQL with its nature and support.
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    Google
    Looker Studio is far easier to implement, stand up, and learn. The interface is simpler and user-friendly for various levels of data visualization/analysis knowledge and experience. The biggest benefit of Looker Studio, however, is its ease of connection to GA data and speed. Furthermore, since it is an online program/tool, it requires less CPU/battery/storage on the user's device.
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    Return on Investment
    Google
    • Improved integration with Google Cloud, we have set up some automations with Google Workspace, and we have noticed that the raw data sharing between them is very fast as compared to using some other managed database, not sure why.
    • Due to some downtime during maintenance, we had to set up a relatively small service which ingested the data while this went down and dumped it when it came back up. So this was a negative impact on our ROI, since now we had to remedy this downtime against the same profit margins
    • It was cheaper than the legacy aws service since we needed large database instances
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    Google
    • Free, so the only investment is time
    • Because it doesn't have native support of non-Google sources, it can cost more money than Tableau
    • The time spent formatting the templates or building connectors can have a negative impact on ROI
    • As a agency, charging for the reporting service is profitable after the first month or two after building the dashboard.
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    ScreenShots

    Google Cloud SQL Screenshots

    Screenshot of migrating to a fully managed database solution - Self-managing a database, such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, or SQL Server, can be inefficient and expensive, with significant effort around patching, hardware maintenance, backups, and tuning. Migrating to a fully managed solution can be done using a Database Migration Service with minimal downtime.Screenshot of data-driven application development - Cloud SQL accelerates application development via integration with the larger ecosystem of Google Cloud services, Google partners, and the open source community.