Google Cloud Spanner
Fully managed relational database for unlimited scale, strong consistency, and up to 99.999% availability.
Availability SLA
Up to 99.999%
Consistency
External & Strong Consistency
Scale
Horizontally Scalable
SQL Dialect
ANSI 2011 with extensions
About Google Cloud Spanner
Cloud Spanner is designed for mission-critical applications that require transactional consistency at a global scale. It automatically handles sharding and replication to provide low-latency reads and writes anywhere in the world. Key features include external consistency, high availability with a 99.999% SLA for multi-regional instances, and support for standard SQL (ANSI 2011). It's suitable for industries like financial services, gaming, retail, and global supply chain management that need to process high volumes of transactional data without compromising on consistency or availability. Spanner integrates with other Google Cloud services and offers client libraries for popular programming languages.
Core Features
Global Distribution
Synchronous replication and automatic multi-site failover for high availability.
Transactional Consistency
Fully serializable ACID transactions with externally consistent reads.
Automatic Sharding
Data is automatically sharded and re-sharded based on load and data size, enabling horizontal scaling.
Relational Model
Supports schemas, a standard SQL query language, and a familiar relational data model.
Ideal Use Cases
Financial Services
For trading platforms and ledgers requiring strong, global consistency.
Gaming
For player inventories, entitlements, and leaderboards that need to scale massively.
Retail & E-Commerce
For inventory management and order processing systems across a global user base.
Supply Chain
For tracking logistics and inventory with high fidelity and transactional integrity.