Of databases and clouds
February 24, 2026

Of databases and clouds

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Google Cloud SQL

The web/infra team uses Google Cloud SQL as a managed MySQL database for most of our staging/testing environments. We have an array of internal tools that depend on a MySQL database. It addresses our need to store relational data for the tools and services that we build around our product(s)

Pros

  • Easy to set up
  • Provides a good web interface to monitor resource consumption
  • Has built in backups and replication support

Cons

  • Connection options. Currently, only connections via sockets are supported if using with CloudRun
  • Connection drops during maintenance
  • Costs escalate quickly when usage grows
  • Improved integration with Google Cloud, we have set up some automations with Google Workspace, and we have noticed that the raw data sharing between them is very fast as compared to using some other managed database, not sure why.
  • Due to some downtime during maintenance, we had to set up a relatively small service which ingested the data while this went down and dumped it when it came back up. So this was a negative impact on our ROI, since now we had to remedy this downtime against the same profit margins
  • It was cheaper than the legacy aws service since we needed large database instances
The web interface is very easy to use. It has extensive documentation and explainer videos on YouTube that get you going right at it really quickly. The built in monitoring dashboard shows all the relevant information. The GCP commands via the command line is also very easy where you need maybe 3-4 commands to get everything up and running with monitoring
Our use case was mainly within the Google Cloud ecosystem, so this service was of high value where all of our sub-infra for a project was right there in one place. We no longer had to maintain separate dashboard for monitoring just because our compute and database were on different clouds

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

It is well suited if already working in a Google Cloud environment with multiple other Google Cloud services. For example, when setting up a cloud run application, it has a build in connector to Cloud SQL if the application requires one. It isn't well suited in a multi cloud or hybrid cloud environment

Google Cloud SQL Feature Ratings

Database-as-a-Service
8.3
Database scalability
8
Automated backups
7
Database security provisions
8
Monitoring and metrics
10

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