Good offering for cloud deployed sidecar.
August 17, 2025

Good offering for cloud deployed sidecar.

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Google Cloud SQL

For certain aspects of the BI Landscape, we required the data to be hosted in the cloud rather than on-premises. Architecture. - A sidecar database is deployed in Google Cloud SQL as a supplement to the main on-premise data warehouse. - Data is replicated from on-prem systems and sensor data - Cloud SQL acts as a read-optimized layer for BI tools and sharing to other cloud services.

Pros

  • Performance scaling during peak use.
  • Operational Simplicity.
  • Avoids licensing costs of expensive middleware to expose on-premise systems to external cloud services.

Cons

  • More customer control wrt. backup schedule and retention.
  • More granular segmentation for workload limits depending on which pipeline accesses the data to avoid costly errors or misuse.
  • Enhanced remote API for stored procedures, enabling initiation from on-premise databases to streamline orchestration and monitoring.
  • Rapid Prototyping and Development.
  • It was easy to integrate outside once the internal replications were set up.
  • Scalability to fit with changing demand.
Good offering for what we use it for.
Good integration with other cloud systems, particularly other Google offerings.
Simple to implement as SaaS.

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?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of Google Cloud SQL go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Google Cloud SQL again?

Yes

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.

Google Cloud SQL Feature Ratings

Database-as-a-Service
7.8
Database scalability
10
Automated backups
5
Database security provisions
8
Monitoring and metrics
8

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