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Straightforward to set up with multi-region support and helpful for managing workflows
Pros and Cons
  • "The initial setup is straightforward."
  • "The purging of the data could be better."

What is our primary use case?

We use it for managing workflows, workflow data, and state management. We'll use it for tenant metadata information and keeping it. 

We have some BI use cases as well. We are in the automation industry, so, in general, whatever is required for automation, we keep all that information. 

What is most valuable?

We are using standard SQLs features only, so we don't use any very specific feature assets.

One feature we've found pretty interesting was their support, which is multi-region support. They have good multi-region failure support, and we can just set up there and read replicas directly and we can fall back. We are quite pleased with the results.

The initial setup is straightforward. 

It's stable. 

The solution can scale. 

What needs improvement?

The purging of the data could be better. We don't have a good mechanism to deal with the old data, especially when the data grows. We see latency issues, so we were forced to introduce an in-memory store. Otherwise, the solution is fine.

The enterprise edition is quite expensive. 

For how long have I used the solution?

I've used the solution for a few months. 

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What do I think about the stability of the solution?

The stability is good. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. 

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

Currently, our DevOps team is using the product, and we have 20 to 30 people using it. We have plans to increase usage. 

While it is scalable, I don't yet have practical experience with the process. 

How was the initial setup?

The solution is very easy to set up. It's not overly complex. 

The deployment is very fast. It was only a few minutes.

I'd rate the solution three and a half out of five in terms of ease of setup.

I'd rate it higher if there was general serverless support or good best practices by way of documentation for setting everything up. We are using the enterprise model. Having best practices and serverless support would make it a bit better.

Right now, we don't need much maintenance as we're still in the beginning stages and don't have much production workload.

What about the implementation team?

We were able to handle the setup ourselves. The documentation was good enough to follow so that the setup was easy.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

The pricing is interesting. For the enterprise edition, it was almost three times the cost of the standard edition. There should be some more clarity on that. It was not very clear why it's so much more or what the differences are. It requires better documentation. 

What other advice do I have?

We're a customer and end-user.

We moved quite recently in production. In terms of the development run, we were on AWS. Now, some of the workloads we are moving to GCP even though we have been an Amazon shop for a long time. 

We are working on the latest version of the solution. 

I'd rate the solution eight out of ten.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Public Cloud

If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?

Google
Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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it_user927078 - PeerSpot reviewer
Commercial and Operations Director at SygmaTel, BlaBla Connect, KnowMe Solutions
Real User
Easy to manage and has the ability to oversee the statistics of your SQL
Pros and Cons
  • "Ease of management and the ability to oversee the statistics of your SQL."
  • "Google's technical support is good, but they tend to never reopen a case and to send us snippets from the publicly available documentation. It's not as helpful as you would expect, not just for Google Cloud SQL but for all of Google Cloud products."

What is our primary use case?

GCP hosts our entire infrastructure, both internally used systems, and externally-facing ones. Back to back this means that Google Cloud SQL is used for all SQL related requirements by our systems.

How has it helped my organization?

The main benefit to our organization is the fact that we no longer need DB admins that take care of the physical servers, backups etc... All this is managed by GCP.

What is most valuable?

In terms of most valuable features - its ease of management and the ability to oversee the statistics of your SQL, and obviously its availability all the time.

What needs improvement?

In my humble opinion, nothing can be improved. It's a good solution as it is.

What could be refined however is the ability to have more than just one secondary/replication site. At the moment you can have a primary DB and a replica one, but having the option to add a third or fourth replication site would be fantastic.

For how long have I used the solution?

We've been using it for around 2 years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

Google Cloud SQL is very stable.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

It is highly scalable. You can quickly add the disc space and you can quickly add different discs and nodes.

Everyone in our company is using Google. Emails are Google. Everyone's using Google. All infrastructure for our operation is on Google. The more business we have the higher the usage.

How are customer service and technical support?

Google's technical support is good, but they tend to never reopen a case and to send us snippets from the publicly available documentation. It's not as helpful as you would expect, not just for Google Cloud SQL but for all of Google Cloud products.

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup was quite simple. It took maybe 10, 20 minutes

What other advice do I have?

On a scale of 10, I'd give it a 10. 

I would recommend everyone to check all of Google's Cloud portfolio and give it a shot.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Private Cloud

If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?

Google
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it_user685374 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Enterprise Architect with 501-1,000 employees
Vendor
Reduced management overhead on the DB side.

What is most valuable?

  • Automated backups
  • Read replicas
  • Integration with other GCP services

How has it helped my organization?

Reduced management overhead on the DB side; scripted env-ts (setup and tear down of the infrastructure within GCP).

What needs improvement?

  • Accessibility over internal network, rather than by public IP only
  • MySQL clustering (rather than replication or failover only)

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

Not really, as long as GCP infrastructure is up.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

For write operations – yes, as there is no MySQL clustering mode.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

Hosted MySQL DB, maintained by DBA; reason for switch: overall move to the cloud of other GCP components.

How was the initial setup?

Very straightforward, just a simple page to configure DB capacity and some additional attributes.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

Licensing is not applicable; pricing is reasonable. Slightly more expensive than corresponding Google Compute Engine instance.

What other advice do I have?

Most benefit would be for organizations which are moving other services to Google Cloud.

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