Cloud Spanner is a fully managed, mission-critical, relational database service that offers transactional consistency at global scale, automatic, synchronous replication for high availability, and support for two SQL dialects: Google Standard SQL (ANSI 2011 with extensions) and PostgreSQL.

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Guides

Reference

Resources

Training and tutorials

Try Cloud Spanner tutorials, courses, and self-paced training from Google Cloud Skills Boost.

Training

Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure

These lectures, demos, and hands-on labs give you an overview of Google Cloud products and services so that you can learn the value of Google Cloud and how to incorporate cloud-based solutions into your business strategies.

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Training

Architecting with Google Cloud: Design and Process

This course features a combination of lectures, design activities, and hands-on labs to show you how to use proven design patterns on Google Cloud to build highly reliable and efficient solutions and operate deployments that are highly available and cost-effective.

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Tutorial

Cloud Spanner with Spring Boot

Learn how to connect to Cloud SQL from Cloud Run

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Use cases

Explore use cases, reference architectures, whitepapers, best practices, and industry solutions.

Architecture

Architecting disaster recovery for locality-restricted workloads

Discusses how to use Google Cloud to architect for disaster recovery (DR) to meet location-specific requirements.

Disaster Recovery

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Architecture

Architecting database migration and replication using Striim

Describes using Striim to architect database migration and replication.

Planning Migration

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Use case

Continuous data replication to Cloud Spanner using Striim

Demonstrates migrating a MySQL database to Cloud Spanner using Striim.

Replication Migration

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Architecture

Database migration: Concepts and principles (Part 1)

Introduces concepts, principles, terminology, and architecture of near-zero downtime database migrations to Google Cloud.

Migration

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Use case

Creating a change log with JDBC using the commit timestamp feature of Cloud Spanner

Shows how to use the commit timestamp feature to track the date and time when changes are made to your database records.

Java Changes

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Best practice

Best practices for using Cloud Spanner as a gaming database

Describes best practices for using Cloud Spanner as the primary backend database for game state storage.

Shards Gaming

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Code samples

Dive into coding with examples that demonstrate how to use and connect Google Cloud services.

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Getting started with Cloud Spanner in Python

First steps using Spanner with Python

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Getting started with Cloud Spanner in Node.js

First steps using Spanner with Nde.js

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Getting started with Cloud Spanner in Java

First steps using Spanner with Java

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Getting started with Cloud Spanner in PHP

First steps using Spanner with PHP

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Getting started with Cloud Spanner in C#

First steps using Spanner with C#

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Getting started with Cloud Spanner in Ruby

First steps using Spanner with Ruby

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Getting started with Cloud Spanner in C++

First steps using Spanner with C++

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Videos