Google Spanner
Google Spanner is a scalable, multi-version, globally-distributed database designed, built, and deployed at Google, combining the consistency of relational databases with the horizontal scalability of NoSQL systems.[4] It provides strong consistency, ACID transactions, and high availability…
Key facts
- First appeared
- 2012
- Category
- technology
- Problem solved
- Spanner was created to provide a globally-distributed database with strong external consistency, ACID transactions, and scalability to millions of machines, solving the limitations of previous systems like Bigtable that offered eventual consistency but lacked full transactional support at global scale.[4]
- Platforms
- Multi-datacenter environments, Google Cloud Platform
Related technologies
Notable users
- Financial services companies
- Retail companies
- Gaming companies