G2 Vendor Directory

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) vs. Google Cloud Spanner

A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.

MetricAmazon Relational Database Service (RDS)

by Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Google Cloud Spanner

by Google

Overall rating4.54.2
Review count90736
Ease of use9.08.2
Ease of setup9.08.4
Quality of support8.88.8
Meets requirements9.18.9
NPS66.16454232.258065
Small Business28.8%27.8%
Mid-Market37.5%25.0%
Enterprise33.7%47.2%
Total page views646174
Total LLM citations2,389538

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud. It provides cost-efficient and resizable capacity while managing time-consuming database administration tasks such as hardware provisioning, database setup, patching and backups. It frees you up to focus on your apps so you can give them the better performance, availability, security, and compatibility they need. Amazon RDS is available on 6 familiar database instances: Amazon Aurora, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, Oracle Database and SQL Server engines.

Pros

  • Ease of Use
  • Scalability
  • Setup Ease
  • Security
  • Backup Services
  • Reliability

Google Cloud Spanner

The first horizontally scalable, strongly consistent, relational database service

Pros