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Although Google Cloud SQL has room for improvement by addressing a minor lack of features, its features and services keep it high among other SQL database products. It is very fast compared to others. Since it is cloud-based, maintenance is also easier. Integration capabilities are also more than expected.Incentivized
If you have to manage a lot of different databases from different vendors, you could do well by standardizing on this product. It checks all the boxes for a proper database management studio. You would only have to learn one product to manage them all. However, if you are looking to find a good product for a single database vendor, you might be better off finding a tool that was designed specifically for that vendor product.Incentivized
Highly scalable without worrying about sudden transaction explosion during peak hours.Highly available with multiple geographical locations and regions for nearly 0 downtime to the users.Extremely reliable and responsive for high latency applications due to superb networking at the core.Incentivized
Foreign Key Constraint data viewer! This was a tremendously helpful feature that not many other products have. Just pick a constraint and see the data in the child tables! No setup required!Supports any and every database imaginable.Incentivized
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.
Somewhat laggy performance. Boot up speed was on the slow side and connecting to our database servers was also a little slower than other products.User interface can be a little clunky. Instead of the usual tree view of servers, databases, and schemas, you are presented with lists that you click on and get new windows to pick the new list of data from. Not organized efficiently.Incentivized
On demand scalability helps us provision extra resources as per our requirement and load on the application. Reduced cost due to fully managed services and no need to manage underlying infrastructure which reduced time of patching and maintaining underlying infrastructure. Easy to configure as per application requirements. Supports monitoring which is not available in custom hosted database instance on own computing infrastructureIncentivized
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.Incentivized
Google SQL was great as a first SQL provision. It quickly enabled the apps to be built and scaled as needed for a while. It was robust and adaptable as needed and easy to export as needed when ready, depending on growth. Cost-wise, it's a good choice and requires little investment to get going.Incentivized
Compared to Microsoft's SQL Management Studio, Valentina studio was comparable, just harder to get used to in the UI department. It ran slightly slower than other products but did save some time with neat features they baked into the product. However, in using DBeaver Community and DBForge Studio for PostgreSQL from Devart, we found different products that the team ultimately decided to use. DBeaver has all of the features we needed most (minus the constraint data viewer) and a more intuitive UI that we were used to. DBForge Studio for PostgreSQL has a very standard Windows look and feel and lacks some features, like database/table designers, but makes up for those shortcomings in the much easier filtering and sorting options right in the data grids. You can even write a query and edit the data returned, which is something we don't see in many of these tools. Our team ultimately settled on the developers using DBeaver and the support team that needs data viewing/editing capabilities using DBForge Studio. Incentivized
With managed database system, it has given us near 100% data availabilityIt has also improved web layer experience with faster processing and authentication using database fieldsGoogle Cloud SQL also gels up well with Google Analytics and other analytics systems for us to join up different data points and process them for deeper dives and analysisIncentivized
It saved time in some areas of finding child data by not having to write queries to find it.The user interface caused some extra training for some users and ultimately caused them to not like using it.Incentivized