Hands On Google Cloud SQL and Cloud Spanner: Deployment, Administration and Use Cases with Python

© Navin Sabharwal, Shakuntala Gupta Edward 2020

N. Sabharwal, S. G. EdwardHands On Google Cloud SQL and Cloud Spannerhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5537-7_5

5. Cloud Spanner

Navin Sabharwal¹  and Shakuntala Gupta Edward²

(1)

New Delhi, India

(2)

Ghaziabad, India

 

Cloud Spanner is Google’s cloud-native, enterprise-grade, always-on, fully managed NewSQL database service. It offers high availability with an industry-leading 99.999% availability SLA and horizontal scalability with consistent global ACID transactions.

Prior to getting started with Cloud Spanner, you need to get familiar with NewSQL. This chapter first takes a look at NewSQL. With digital transformation, many companies are building cloud applications. However, when building their applications, ...