Cloud Spanner
Fully managed relational database with unlimited scale, strong consistency, and up to 99.999% availability.
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Get all the benefits of relational semantics and SQL with unlimited scale
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Start at any size and scale with no limits as your needs grow
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Enjoy high availability with zero scheduled downtime and online schema changes
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Deliver high-performance transactions with strong consistency across regions and continents
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Focus on innovation, eliminating manual tasks with capabilities like automatic sharding
Benefits
Scale as needed with no limits
Globally distributed, ACID-compliant database that automatically handles replicas, sharding, and transaction processing, so you can quickly scale to meet any usage pattern and ensure success of your products.
Make your database highly available anywhere
Cloud Spanner is built on Google’s dedicated network and battle tested by Google services used by billions. It offers up to 99.999% availability with zero downtime for planned maintenance and schema changes.
Do fewer thankless tasks with a simpler experience
IT admins and DBAs are inundated with operating databases. With Cloud Spanner, creating or scaling a globally replicated database now takes a handful of clicks and reduces your cost of maintaining databases.
Key features
Key features
Relational database, built for scale
Everything you would expect from a relational database—schemas, SQL queries, and ACID transactions—battle tested and ready to scale globally.
99.999% availability
Cloud Spanner delivers industry-leading 99.999% availability for multi-regional instances—10x less downtime than four nines—and provides transparent, synchronous replication across region and multi-region configurations.
Automatic sharding
Cloud Spanner optimizes performance by automatically sharding the data based on request load and size of the data. As a result, you can spend less time worrying about how to scale your database and instead focus on scaling your business.
Customers
Learn from customers using Cloud Spanner relational databases
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Documentation
Documentation
Use cases where Spanner is transforming businesses
Learn how Spanner powers business-critical applications in retail, financial services, gaming, media and entertainment, technology, healthcare and more.
Cloud Spanner: Qwik Start
Learn how to create a Cloud Spanner instance, database, and table; add a schema, write and modify data, and run a query.
Spanner Emulator
Spanner Emulator lets application developers do correctness testing when developing an application. The emulator runs in an offline environment.
What makes Spanner tick?
Take a deep dive into how Cloud Spanner works and how it serves as the foundation for a lot of other Google products and services.
SQL best practices
Learn best practices for constructing SQL statements to help Cloud Spanner find efficient execution plans.
Data types
Find an overview of each data type, including simple data types such as integers, as well as more complex types such as ARRAY and STRUCT.
Instances
Learn the concepts of Cloud Spanner instances, instance configurations, and nodes. See the differences and tradeoffs between regional and multi-region instances.
Transactions
See the general properties and semantics of transactions in Cloud Spanner as well as the read-write, read-only, and Partitioned DML transaction interfaces.
Concepts
Learn about Spanner concepts from replication to audit logging, as well as advanced concepts such as sessions.
All features
All features
| Relational database, built for scale | Everything you would expect from a relational database—schemas, SQL queries, and ACID transactions—battled-tested and ready to scale globally. |
| 99.999% availability | For global businesses, reliability is expected but maintaining that reliability while also rapidly scaling can be a challenge. Cloud Spanner delivers industry-leading 99.999% availability for multi-regional instances and provides transparent, synchronous replication across region and multi-region configurations |
| Automatic sharding | Cloud Spanner optimizes performance by automatically sharding the data based on request load and size of the data. As a result, you can spend less time worrying about how to scale your database, and instead focus on scaling your business. |
| Fully managed | Easy deployment at every stage and for any size database. Synchronous replication and maintenance are automatic and built in. |
| Strong transactional consistency | Purpose-built for external, strong, global transactional consistency. |
| Regional and multi-regional configurations | No matter where your users may be, apps backed by Cloud Spanner can read and write up-to-date strongly consistent data globally Additionally, when running a multi-region instance, your database is able to survive a regional failure, and offers industry-leading 99.999% availability. |
| Online schema changes with no downtime | Cloud Spanner users can make a schema change, whether it’s adding a column or adding an index, while serving traffic with zero downtime. Hence you now have the flexibility to adapt your database to your business needs without compromising on the availability of your application. |
| Built on Google Cloud network | Cloud Spanner is built on Google’s dedicated network that provides low-latency, security, and reliability for serving users across the globe. |
| Enterprise-grade security | Customer-managed encryption keys (CMEK), data-layer encryption, IAM integration for access and controls, and comprehensive audit logging. |
| Backup and Restore, point-in-time recovery (PITR) | Backup and Restore recovers the database to the last state when the backup or the export was taken. PITR provides continuous data protection with the ability to recover your past data to a microsecond granularity. |
| Multi-language support | Client libraries in C#, C++, Go, Java, Node.js, PHP, Python, and Ruby. JDBC drivers for connectivity with popular third-party tools. |
| Real-time change data capture and replication | Synchronize data across heterogeneous databases, storage systems, and applications reliably and with minimal latency with Datastream. Seamlessly deliver change streams from Oracle and MySQL databases into Google Cloud services such as Cloud Spanner, Cloud SQL, Google Cloud Storage, and BigQuery for up-to-date information. |
Pricing
Pricing
Pricing for Cloud Spanner is simple and predictable. You
are only charged for the number of nodes in your instance,
the amount of storage that your tables and secondary indexes
use (not pre-provisioned), and the amount of network
bandwidth used. Note that there is no additional charge for
replication. See the
pricing guide
for more details.
| Feature | Pricing |
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| Node (including all replications) |
Regional pricing (USD): From $0.90 per node per hr Multi-region pricing (USD): From $3.00 per node per hr |
| Storage |
Regional pricing (USD): From $0.30 per GB per month Multi-region pricing (USD): From $0.50 per GB per month |
| Network ingress | Free |
| Network egress | Cross-region and internet egress rates may apply |
If you pay in a currency other than USD, the prices listed in your currency on Google Cloud SKUs apply.
Partners
Partners
Take advantage of our
growing partner ecosystem
to help you maximize value from Cloud Spanner.
