Google Cloud Spanner is a relational, highly scalable, managed, database service. Cloud Spanner solves the need for a horizontally-scaling database with consistent global ACID transactions and SQL semantics
Google Cloud Spanner is the first and only relational database service that is both strongly consistent and horizontally scalable. Features include:
- ACID transactions,
- Relational schemas (and schema changes without downtime),
- SQL queries, high performance,
- Automatic scaling for horizontal scalability to hundreds or thousands of servers
- Synchronous data replication, and node redundancy
- Up to 99.999% (five 9s) of availability
- Based upon the published Spanner research paper
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