Much like the engineering team that created it, Google Spanner is something that stretches across the globe while behaving as if it's all in one place. Unveiled this fall after years of hints and ...

Google Cloud has developed a PostgreSQL interface for Spanner, its globally distributed relational database. The new interface, which is in preview and which is being officially unveiled tomorrow at ...

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 ...

Here's the lowdown on Google's globally-distributed operational database -- Cloud Spanner -- along with comparisons to its counterparts, and non-counterparts, on the Amazon and Microsoft cloud ...

The Spanner technology sees Google craft a globally distributed database to underpin its massive software platforms with the help of atomic clocks, GPS systems and some of its most lauded computer ...

The integration of PostgreSQL into Cloud Spanner is deep; it is not just some conversion overlay. At the database schema level, the PostgreSQL interface for Cloud Spanner supports native PostgresSQL ...

Spanner, the Google Database That Mastered Time, Is Now Open to Everyone About a decade ago, a handful of Google's most talented engineers started building a system that seems to defy logic.

Google claims that, thanks to throughput and storage improvements to Cloud Spanner, the service is now effectively half the cost of DynamoDB.

Cloud Spanner change streams lets users pull data from the Spanner database and use it for other applications (Image courtesy Google Cloud) In addition to pushing data from Spanner into Google Cloud ...

Google's Spanner database is designed to operate seamlessly between data centers around the world, keeping data synchronized across time and distance. To manage the global database and keep it ...