Spanner (database)

Cloud Spanner Booth at Google Cloud Summit

Spanner is a distributed SQL database management and storage service developed by Google.[1] It provides features such as global transactions, strongly consistent reads, and automatic multi-site replication and failover. Spanner is used in Google F1, the database for its advertising business Google Ads, as well as Gmail and Google Photos.[2][3]

  1. ^ Corbett et al. 2012.
  2. ^ Shute et al. 2012.
  3. ^ "Announcing Cloud Spanner Price Performance Updates".