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Everything you need to know about Google Cloud’s family of database offerings.

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A quick take on updates, announcements, resources, events, and learning opportunities from Google Cloud in one handy location. Updated weekly.

Decommission your legacy Apache Cassandra stack and build for the future with Spanner

By Nitin Sagar • 8-minute read

Powering the next generation of agents with Google Cloud databases

By Amit Ganesh • 5-minute read

Google (Spanner) Ranks #1 for Lightweight Transactions Use Case in Gartner® Critical Capabilities Report

By Jagan R. Athreya • 5-minute read

What’s new with Google Data Cloud

By The Google Cloud Data Analytics, BI, and Database teams • 3-minute read

Spanner in 2025: Innovations powering intelligent, multi-model AI applications

By Shubhankar Chatterjee • 10-minute read

Introducing managed connection pooling in AlloyDB — scale further, connect faster

By Emir Okan • 8-minute read

How Fastweb + Vodafone reimagined data workflows with Spanner & BigQuery

By Vincenzo Forciniti • 5-minute read

Elevate your applications with Firestore’s new advanced query engine

By Minh Nguyen • 5-minute read

Supercharge your Cloud SQL for MySQL write performance with new optimized writes

By Alex Joseph • 4-minute read

Achieve near-100% accurate text-to-SQL for your agentic apps

By Yannis Papakonstantinou • 8-minute read