Cloud Spanner

Fully managed relational database delivering strong transactional consistency and horizontal scalability at global scale. Unifies relational, graph, key-value, and vector search workloads in one system, eliminating data silos while guaranteeing external consistency via TrueTime ordering.

Trusted by enterprises such as Uber, Minna Bank, 7-Eleven Japan, REWE, and Mahindra for mission-critical workloads. Differentiates from traditional relational databases by offering horizontal read and write scaling with strong ACID semantics, unlike eventual-consistency NoSQL or vertically-scaling RDBMS. 99.999% availability SLA with automatic replication and maintenance. Supports both GoogleSQL and PostgreSQL dialects for schema and query portability.

Key capabilities:

• Strong ACID transactions with TrueTime ordering across regions
• Horizontal scalability for reads and writes with automatic sharding and geo-partitioning
• Multi-model support: relational SQL, Spanner Graph, vector search, full-text search, and Vertex AI integration
• Single-region, dual-region, or multi-region deployments for fault tolerance
• Migration tools for MySQL and Cassandra, plus PostgreSQL assessment
• Encryption at rest and in transit, IAM, and point-in-time recovery

Use cases span financial ledgers and trade settlement requiring a consistent global view of transactions. User profiles and entitlements for gaming and digital platforms at scale. Omni-channel inventory and order management for retail with a single source of truth. Online banking and digital financial services needing always-on access. Knowledge graphs and recommendation engines via native graph and vector search.