Google Cloud Spanner
Google Cloud Spanner is a globally-distributed, strongly consistent, and horizontally scalable relational database service offered by Google Cloud. It combines the benefits of traditional relational databases, such as ACID transactions and SQL queries, with the scalability and high availability…
Key facts
- First appeared
- 2017
- Category
- technology
- Problem solved
- Google Cloud Spanner was created to solve the challenge of building applications that require both global scale and strong transactional consistency, a feat that traditional relational databases could not achieve due to their architectural limitations (e.g., single master bottleneck, sharding complexity), and NoSQL databases often sacrificed strong consistency for scalability.
- Platforms
- Google Cloud Platform
Related technologies
Notable users
- Niantic (for Pokémon GO)
- Coinbase
- Google (internal services like Google Ads, Gmail, YouTube, Google Cloud billing, etc.)
- SAP (for SAP HANA on Google Cloud)
- Kakao Games
- Square