Cloud Spanner reliability guide

Last reviewed 2022-05-19 UTC

Cloud Spanner is a distributed SQL database management and storage service, with features such as global transactions and highly available horizontal scaling and transactional consistency.

Best practices

Cloud Spanner backup and restore - key features of Cloud Spanner Backup and Restore, comparison of Backup and Restore with Import and Export, implementation details, and how to control access to Spanner resources.
Cloud Spanner best practices - guidance on bulk loading, using Data Manipulation Language (DML), designing schema to avoid hotspots, and SQL best practices.

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Last updated 2022-05-19 UTC.