© 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_6

6. Cloud Spanner Explained

Navin Sabharwal1  and Shakuntala Gupta Edward2
(1)
New Delhi, India
(2)
Ghaziabad, India
 

Now that you are familiar with Spanner, it’s time to look more closely at its underlying concepts and features. As with any database, it is beneficial to do a deep dive before starting to work with it. This chapter explores the concepts that are important when working with Spanner, starting with instances. The chapter covers pointers for databases, tables, and keys. Along the way, it also covers the way operations are handled in Spanner.

This chapter covers:
  • Data modeling concepts ...

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