Item: Google Cloud SQL
Rating: 9
Author: Deepansh Daga

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Google Cloud SQL is being used by our organization at the enterprise level. It's being used in different projects. In some projects, we have migrated SQL DB to cloud SQL DB to save cost and leverage scalability. It's really easy to migrate data from on-premise to cloud SQL and use ETL also.

Pros and Cons

Scalability
Read only replicas
Easy migration

Partitioning
Golden gate type of replication
Recovery mechanism

Return on Investment

Very good RTO
Very good RPO
Read replicas

Alternatives Considered

I have used only Google Cloud SQL so far.

Key Insights

Do you think Google Cloud SQL delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Google Cloud SQL's feature set?

Yes

Did Google Cloud SQL live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Google Cloud SQL go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Google Cloud SQL again?

Yes

Other Software Used

Azure SQL Database, Oracle Database, Microsoft SQL Server

Likelihood to Recommend

Best suited for Financial services, banks, eCommerce, telecom companies products where more relational database kind of data is required and where we want to migrate from legacy system to cloud world.
But, I guess it would not be useful for IoT, analytics, real-time processing of data, etc. Where big data is more prominent.

Google Cloud SQL is best SQL offering for relational database

Overall Satisfaction with Google Cloud SQL