Great choice for relational database that requires high availability
May 26, 2021
Great choice for relational database that requires high availability
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Google Cloud Spanner
As our business grows rapidly, we need a database that can enable us to have [the] capacity in scaling and availability and it also needs to be [a] relational database. At that time we are already a Google Cloud Platform customer and after some researches, we think Google Cloud Spanner can give us both.
- Super high availability
- Scales automatically
- High standard SLA
- Lack MySQL support.
- Cannot edit the table on the fly.
- Kind of high learn curve to migrate.
- It increased our database availability.
- It improved our database performance.
- We do not have to maintain a database cluster anymore.
- BigTable, Google BigQuery and Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)
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.
Do you think Google Cloud Spanner delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with Google Cloud Spanner's feature set?
Yes
Did Google Cloud Spanner live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of Google Cloud Spanner go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy Google Cloud Spanner again?
Yes