Competitive comparisons First let's discuss how Spanner compares -- and how it does not -- to competing offerings from the Amazon and Microsoft cloud platforms. This is more about getting our ...

Spanner has been in development for around five years, with information first leaking out about the technology in the press in 2009. Google hopes the database community will follow its lead in ...

Google’s Cloud Spanner is now half the cost of Amazon’s DynamoDB “for most workloads,” Google says. And Google doesn’t want you to forget it.

Google LLC today introduced a new version of Cloud Spanner, one of its managed database services, that will enable customers to process their information faster and more cost-efficiently.The compa.

Before Spanner, this didn't seem possible. Machines couldn't keep databases consistent without constant and heavy communication, and communication across the globe took much too long. You know ...

Cloud Spanner now lets you track, version, deploy, and audit database schema changes using Flyway or Liquibase. Conversely, Cloud Spanner is not the only managed cloud service supported by Liquibase.

At its annual Cloud Next conference, Google Cloud today announced the general availability of Cloud Spanner Data Boost. Data Boost is a fully managed serverless service that allows users to ...

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Google Cloud has updated its fully managed distributed SQL database service Spanner with an option to maintain dual-region configuration, which it claims will make it easier for enterprises to ...