Google Cloud SQL is a fully managed service that is ideal for small teams
October 16, 2025

Google Cloud SQL is a fully managed service that is ideal for small teams

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Google Cloud SQL

We are using Google Cloud SQL (PostgreSQL) database as the operational store. Together with Django we have developed a multi tenant solution. The database service helps us avoid operational overhead. It enables us to vertically scale the database service as we add more features and the number of application users increases over time.

Pros

  • It reduces operational overhead
  • It is easy to vertically scale
  • It is integrated with Google cloud logging and monitoring for troubleshooting

Cons

  • The cost of the service can be reduced so that it is affordable (for startups).
  • Developers need to use an Google Cloud SQL auth proxy to connect from their personal machines which is an overhead.
  • A third party tool needs to be used to run SQL queries and visualisation of database relationships. There is no tool provided or recommended by Google for developers.
  • Easy to scale the database service
  • Reduces operational overhead and costs
  • Easy to troubleshoot due to integration with Google cloud logging and monitoring
Google Cloud SQL is easy to use as the database service can be scaled as per usage, it is easy to troubleshoot due to its integration with Google Cloud logging and monitoring and it reduces operational overhead as it is easy to create and that the platform takes care of security and upgrades.
DigitalOcean Managed database is relatively less costly compared to Google Cloud SQL database.

Google Cloud SQL service is well integrated with other Google Cloud Platform services such as IAM which enables fine grain access to team members.

We selected Google Cloud SQL as all other services that we use are from Google Cloud Platform.

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

Google Cloud SQL is ideal when most of your solution components are using services of the Google Cloud Platform and you are working in a startup or small company where there are no operations engineers and you want to use a fully Managed database service so as to avoid operational overhead.

Google Cloud SQL Feature Ratings

Database-as-a-Service
9.8
Database scalability
10
Automated backups
10
Database security provisions
9
Monitoring and metrics
10

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