APIs & reference

• Overview of APIs and client libraries

  The client libraries, the RPC API, and the REST API provide programmatic access to Cloud Spanner.

• Cloud Spanner client libraries

  Get started with Cloud Spanner in your language of choice.

• JDBC drivers

  Overview of the JDBC drivers available for use with Cloud Spanner.

• Using the open-source JDBC driver

  How to use the open-source JDBC driver to update a database schema, add and update rows using DML statements in autocommit mode and as part of a batch transaction, and run a SQL query.

• Open-source JDBC driver FAQ

  FAQ for Cloud Spanner's open-source JDBC driver written by Google.

• Simba JDBC driver FAQ

  FAQ for Cloud Spanner's JDBC driver written by Simba.

• RPC reference

  Cloud Spanner's RPC API reference.

• REST reference

  Cloud Spanner's REST API reference.

• Data Definition Language (DDL)

  DDL reference for creating, altering, or dropping tables and indexes in a database.

• SQL query syntax

  SQL reference for executing SELECT statements.

• SQL functions and operators

  SQL expressions, including functions and operators.

• SQL lexical structure and syntax

  Reference for identifiers, literals, keywords, operators, and special characters.

• Working with arrays in SQL

  Tips for working with arrays in Cloud Spanner SQL.

• Data Manipulation Language syntax

  Reference for Cloud Spanner's Data Manipulation Language.

• Information schema

  Reference for the built-in schema that's common to every Cloud Spanner database.

• Query execution operators

  Operators used in Cloud Spanner query execution plans.

• gcloud command-line tool

  Common gcloud commands for interacting with Cloud Spanner from the command line.