Google Cloud Spanner
Google's globally distributed relational database with external consistency, kept by TrueTime clocks. See how developers rate it month by month on DTDb.
- Category
- database engine
- Developer
- Created by
- —
- First release
- 2017
- License
- Proprietary
- Open source
- No
- Pricing
- Paid
- Website
- https://cloud.google.com/spanner
- Written in
- C++
- Data model
- Relational, Graph, Vector
- Storage layout
- Row-oriented
- Workload
- Transactions (OLTP)
- Analytics architecture
- Not an analytics platform
- Query language
- GoogleSQL, PostgreSQL dialect
- ACID transactions
- Yes
- Schema
- Strict
- Deployment
- Managed cloud
- Scaling
- Natively distributed
- Create, read, update, delete
- Create: moderate (Paxos commit across replicas); Read: fast (Strong reads from any replica, stale reads are faster); Update: moderate (Paxos commit across replicas); Delete: moderate (Old versions garbage collected after an hour)