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Spanner is a fully managed, mission-critical database service that brings together relational, graph, key-value, and search. It offers transactional consistency at global scale, automatic, synchronous replication for high availability, and support for two SQL dialects: GoogleSQL (ANSI 2011 with extensions) and PostgreSQL.

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