Google has launched Cloud Spanner, a new managed database service that you will be able to use through Google Cloud Platform.
This service is an implentation of the Spanner software Google has been using for years and documented in a paper in 2012. Google did something quite similar when it launched Google Cloud Bigtable database service in 2015, almost 9 years after the publication of the Bigtable paper. And before the publication of Bigtable, there was the 2014 launch of Google Container Engine, which is completely based on Google’s open source Kubernetes container cluster management software.
Google Product Manager, Deepti Srivastava, in the blog post, states,
”Cloud Spanner keeps application development simple by supporting standard tools and languages in a familiar relational database environment. It’s ideal for operational workloads supported by traditional relational databases, including inventory management, financial transactions, and control systems, that are outgrowing those systems.”