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Nov. 28, 2022
Tag: Cloud Spanner
Cloud Spanner Nov. 27, 2022Google Cloud: DML Operation limits in GCP Cloud Spanner (mutations) - This article explains mutation limits for Cloud Spanner.
Cloud Spanner Machine Learning Official Blog Vertex AI Nov. 21, 2022Easily integrate machine learning models into applications with Vertex AI integration for Cloud Spanner - Add Vertex AI prediction models to your Spanner application using familiar SQL in minutes to solve near real time problems like campaign management, fraud detection and toxic player detection.
Cloud Spanner Official Blog Nov. 21, 2022Understanding transactional locking in Cloud Spanner - Explore different types of locks in Cloud Spanner and discuss some common cases of transaction locking in Cloud Spanner.
Cloud Spanner Official Blog Nov. 21, 2022Why should game companies choose Cloud Spanner to power their games - Why game companies should choose Spanner, Google’s fully-managed relational database, to scale their database service and what challenges and pain points our technologies help address.
Cloud Spanner Official Blog Nov. 7, 2022A deep dive into Spanner’s query optimizer - Learn how the Cloud Spanner query optimizer helps developers by automatically choosing performant and efficient query plans.
Cloud Spanner Nov. 7, 2022Understanding lock_scanned_ranges hint of Cloud Spanner - We will discuss on LOCK_SCANNED_RANGES hint. Acquiring exclusive locks is needed for different scenario and important to understand hint.
Cloud Spanner Official Blog Oct. 31, 2022NHibernate Dialect for Cloud Spanner is now Generally Available - .NET Developers can now use NHibernate with Google Cloud Spanner. The dialect supports both standard NHibernate features and Spanner-specific features like Interleaved Tables, Mutations and Read-only transactions.
Cloud Spanner Kubernetes Oct. 24, 2022Use Google Cloud Spanner with the Online Boutique sample - This tutorial guide you through connecting sample Online Boutique application to Cloud Spanner.
Cloud Spanner Official Blog Oct. 24, 2022Introducing lock insights and transaction insights for Spanner: troubleshoot lock contentions with pre-built dashboards - Lock insights and transaction insights provide pre-built dashboards to easily diagnose lock contentions and smoothly correlate rows, columns, and transactions to resolve performance issues.
AlloyDB Cloud Bigtable Cloud Firestore Cloud Spanner Cloud SQL Official Blog Oct. 17, 2022What's new in Google Cloud databases: More unified. More open. More intelligent. - Google Cloud databases deliver an integrated experience, support legacy migrations, leverage AI and ML and provide developers world class tools.
Cloud Spanner Official Blog Oct. 3, 2022Cloud Spanner doubles the number of updates per transaction - Cloud Spanner supports 40,000 mutations per commit.
Cloud Spanner Official Blog Sept. 19, 2022Introducing fine-grained access control for Cloud Spanner: A new way to protect your data in Spanner - Fine-grained access control for Cloud Spanner, now available in preview, provides table and column level protection for Spanner databases.
Cloud Spanner Official Blog Sept. 19, 2022Come for the sample app, stay for the main course: Cloud Spanner free trial instances - Cloud Spanner now offers free trial instances with sample data and guided tutorials to try the fully managed relational database.
Cloud Spanner Go Official Blog Sept. 19, 2022Golang’s database/sql driver support for Cloud Spanner is now Generally Available - Enabling Golang application developers to use Google Cloud Spanner as a database provider via database/sql driver support.
AlloyDB Cloud Spanner Cloud SQL Sept. 19, 2022PostgreSQL on Google Cloud — AlloyDB, Cloud SQL, or Cloud Spanner - AlloyDB, Cloud SQL, or Cloud Spanner — what would meet your needs?
Cloud Spanner Official Blog Sept. 19, 2022Try out Cloud Spanner databases at no cost with new free trial instances - Create a 90-day Spanner free trial instance with 10GB storage at no cost. Try Spanner free.
Cloud Spanner Infrastructure Official Blog Sept. 5, 2022Spanner on a modern columnar storage engine - Google’s planet-scale database, Spanner, was migrated to a modern columnar storage engine with many critical services running on top uninterrupted.
Cloud Spanner Go Official Blog Aug. 15, 2022Debugging cloud spanner latency using OpenCensus and Go client library - This article describes a client side latency issue caused by session pool exhaustion and how users can diagnose the situation by using OpenCensus features and Cloud Spanner client library for Go.
Cloud Spanner Cloud SQL Aug. 15, 2022Modernizing with Cloud Spanner — Google Cloud’s SQL Database with Global Scale - When to choose Spanner over Cloud SQL… and how Spanner could be a more cost-effective option!
Cloud Run Cloud Spanner Official Blog July 18, 2022A Guide to Databases on Google Cloud part 3 - Cloud Spanner! & CRUD it with Spring Boot on Cloud Run - In this “A Guide to Databases on Google Cloud part 3 - Cloud Spanner and CRUD it with Spring Boot on Cloud Run” blog we are going to experiment with CRUD on a Java Spring Boot application using Cloud Spanner’s DML API deployed on Cloud Run, without using a Dockerfile.
Cloud Spanner Go Official Blog July 18, 2022Debugging cloud spanner latency using OpenCensus and Go client library - This article describes a client side latency issue caused by session pool exhaustion and how users can diagnose the situation by using OpenCensus features and Cloud Spanner client library for Go.
BigQuery Cloud Spanner July 4, 2022Change Streams in Cloud Spanner | Replication to BigQuery - Replicating data from Cloud Spanner to BigQuery.
Cloud Spanner Official Blog July 4, 2022Introducing Query Insights for Cloud Spanner: troubleshoot performance issues with pre-built dashboards - Spanner’s ‘Query insights’ - a new tool that makes it easy to debug query performance issues.
Beginner Cloud Spanner Java July 4, 2022Spring Cloud GCP — Cloud Spanner - An intro using Cloud Spanner with Java Spring framework.
Cloud Spanner Official Blog June 27, 2022Introducing PostgreSQL interface for Spanner: availability at scale with the interface you know - The new PostgreSQL interface for Spanner, now GA, combines the scalability of Spanner with the portability of PostgreSQL for enterprise workloads.
Cloud Run Cloud Spanner June 13, 2022Running serverless web, batch, and worker apps with Google Cloud Run and Cloud Spanner - Trying Cloud Run as a web app, for job triggering and worker.
Cloud Spanner Official Blog June 6, 2022Introducing granular instance sizing for Cloud Spanner, now run production workloads for as low as $40/month - Customers can now use Cloud Spanner for their production workloads for as low as $40/month and have the same industry leading availability, ability for extreme scale with consistent performance.
Cloud Spanner Data Analytics Official Blog May 30, 2022Change streams for Cloud Spanner: now generally available - Cloud Spanner change streams are now generally available. With change streams, you can capture and stream out changes from your Cloud Spanner databases in near real-time.
Cloud Spanner Serverless Spark May 30, 2022Fast export large database tables — using GCP Serverless Dataproc (Spark) - Import large tables from MySQL (any JDBC) to Cloud Spanner (or GCS).
Cloud Spanner Data Analytics Datastream May 9, 2022Real-Time Streaming | MySQL & Oracle to Cloud Spanner - Migrating data to Cloud Spanner.
Cloud Spanner GCP Experience Official Blog April 25, 2022Vaccinating a nation: Vaccination app delivery in 30 days with Cloud Spanner - OChK used Cloud Spanner to design and deploy an application to help vaccinate every citizen in Poland against COVID-19.
Cloud Spanner Data Analytics Official Blog April 11, 2022Boost the power of your transactional data with Cloud Spanner change streams - Change streams track changes in your Spanner database and integrate this data with other systems for analytics, event triggering, and compliance.
Cloud Spanner Official Blog April 11, 2022Reduce scaling costs by up to 50% in Cloud Spanner with doubled provisioned storage - Spanner has doubled the storage-limit for Spanner instances from 2TB to 4TB per node to help optimize the cost of storage intensive workloads.
Cloud Bigtable Cloud Firestore Cloud Memorystore Cloud Spanner Cloud SQL Official Blog April 11, 2022Google Cloud’s key investment areas to accelerate your database transformation - This blog focuses on the 6 key database investment areas that help you accelerate your digital transformation journey.
Cloud Dataproc Cloud Spanner Serverless Spark April 4, 2022Cloud Spanner export query results using Dataproc Serverless - Exporting data for a Spanner Table or SQL Query using Dataproc Serverless.
Cloud Spanner Official Blog March 28, 2022Disaster recovery simplified with Cloud Spanner CPU optimized backups - Reduce backup creation time, save costs, and enable disaster recovery with Cloud Spanner backups.
Cloud Spanner Official Blog March 28, 2022Step-by-step guide to resolve DEADLINE_EXCEEDED errors on Cloud Spanner - Deadline Exceeded error occurs for many reasons. Here we describe various scenarios and provide a guide on how to investigate and resolve the issues.
BigQuery Cloud Spanner Data Analytics Official Blog March 14, 2022How Spanner and BigQuery work together to handle transactional and analytical workloads - We’ll discuss how Cloud Spanner and BigQuery are a match made in heaven, and can be used together to process transactions at scale and generate real-time insights to deliver amazing customer experiences.
Cloud Spanner Official Blog March 14, 2022Maximize your Cloud Spanner savings with new committed use discounts - Get up to 40% discount on Spanner compute capacity with committed use discounts. Drive higher utilization by applying discounts across projects and regions.
Cloud Spanner Monitoring Official Blog OpenTelemetry March 14, 2022Leveraging OpenTelemetry to democratize Cloud Spanner Observability - This blog discusses Cloud Spanner's new OpenTelemetery receiver, using which customers can now consume Spanner metrics in their choice of APM tooling.
Cloud Spanner Official Blog March 7, 2022Launching new feature or games on existing Cloud Spanner database with Load Generator Tool - Games want to plan for a knife-edge traffic growth pattern, and can use the Cloud Spanner Load Generator tool to prepare their Cloud Spanner database.
Cloud Spanner Official Blog Feb. 28, 2022Ready, set, launch! Cloud Spanner makes application launches easier with warmup and benchmarking tool. - To achieve the powers of consistency, scale and availability by default Cloud Spanner has a built-in mechanism to automatically shard your database and provide a transparent and seamless experience. This blog introduces a tool to expedite the automatic sharding for big scale launch and promotions.
Cloud Spanner Official Blog Feb. 28, 2022Migrating a PHP application to use Cloud Spanner - How to convert a PHP application to use Cloud Spanner using Magento as an example.
Cloud Spanner Official Blog Feb. 21, 2022Cloud Spanner myths busted - The blog talks about the 7 most common myths and elaborates the truth for each of the myths.
Cloud Spanner Monitoring Official Blog Feb. 14, 2022Troubleshooting application performance on Cloud Spanner with OpenCensus - Debugging Cloud Spanner with client-side OpenCensus metrics including round-trip latency and gfe_latency.
Cloud Bigtable Cloud Spanner GCP Experience Official Blog Jan. 31, 2022Sabre chose Bigtable and Cloud Spanner to serve more than 1 billion travelers annually - As a company that makes software for the travel industry, Sabre uses Google Cloud database services to fly higher.
Cloud Spanner Official Blog Dec. 20, 2021How to investigate high tail latency when using Cloud Spanner - This article summarizes common issues about high tail latency and provides useful tips so that Cloud Spanner users can mitigate those issues.
Cloud Spanner Official Blog Ruby Dec. 13, 2021Scale your Ruby applications with Active Record support for Cloud Spanner - Enabling Ruby applications to use Google Cloud Spanner as a database provider via Object-Relational Mapping.
Cloud Spanner Official Blog Python Dec. 13, 2021Google Cloud Spanner Dialect for SQLAlchemy - Enabling Python SQLAlchemy applications to use Google Cloud Spanner as a database.
Cloud Spanner Official Blog Nov. 22, 2021How to develop Global Multiplayer Games using Cloud Spanner - How Spanner makes multiplayer game development easier.
Cloud Spanner Official Blog Nov. 8, 2021Automatically clean up unneeded data with TTL for Cloud Spanner - Time to live (TTL) reduces storage costs, improves query performance, and simplifies data retention by automatically removing unneeded data based on user-defined policies.
Cloud Spanner Official Blog Python Nov. 1, 2021Django ORM support for Cloud Spanner is now Generally Available - Today we're happy to announce GA support for Google Cloud Spanner in the Django ORM.
Cloud Spanner Official Blog Oct. 25, 2021Cloud Spanner connectivity using JetBrains IDEs - You can now browse the database schema and query data stored in Cloud Spanner directly from your JetBrains IDE. This post shows how to connect to a Cloud Spanner instance using IntelliJ IDEA.
Cloud Spanner Official Blog Oct. 18, 2021New PostgreSQL Interface makes Cloud Spanner’s scalability and availability more open and accessible - Customers in financial services, gaming, retail, and many other industries rely on Cloud Spanner today to power their most demanding relational database workloads that need to scale without downtime. At Google Cloud Next ’21 we announced a preview of the PostgreSQL interface for Cloud Spanner that further democratizes access to Spanner for millions of developers.
CI Cloud Spanner Official Blog Oct. 11, 2021Using the Cloud Spanner Emulator in CI/CD pipelines - This post covers how to use the Cloud Spanner emulator in your Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery/Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines.
.NET Cloud Spanner Official Blog Oct. 11, 2021Google Cloud Spanner Provider for Entity Framework Core - The general availability of the Google Cloud Spanner provider for Entity Framework Core. This post covers how to get started with the provider and highlights the supported features.
Cloud Spanner GCP Experience Official Blog Oct. 11, 2021LOVOO’s love affair with Spanner - The largest German-speaking dating app uses Cloud Spanner and Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL to solve for speed and scale.
Cloud Spanner GCP Experience Oct. 4, 2021Building Uber’s Fulfillment Platform for Planet-Scale using Google Cloud Spanner - An overview of how Uber's Fulfillment Platform is built using Cloud Spanner.
Cloud Run Cloud Spanner Official Blog Terraform Sept. 27, 2021Deploying the Cloud Spanner Emulator remotely - Learn how to deploy the Cloud Spanner emulator remotely to GCE and Cloud Run, both manually and via Terraform.
AWS Cloud Spanner Official Blog Sept. 27, 2021DynamoDB to Cloud Spanner via HarbourBridge - This post announces the support for DynamoDB in Harbourbridge in addition to existing support for PostgreSQL and MySQL. This allows DynamoDB users to try out Cloud Spanner with zero-configuration. It helps users to quickly resolve issues during schema and data migration and lets them try out Cloud Spanner as soon as possible.
Cloud Spanner Official Blog Sept. 27, 2021Deploying the Cloud Spanner Emulator locally - Learn about running the Cloud Spanner emulator locally and containerizing + deploying the backend of our sample application on the local emulator.
Cloud Spanner Official Blog Sept. 20, 2021Deployment models for the Cloud Spanner emulator - This is the first of a three-part series of blog posts, which together will form a solution guide for developers using the Cloud Spanner emulator. In this series, after a quick introduction to the Cloud Spanner emulator, we will explore the usage of the emulator with a Cloud Spanner sample application called OmegaTrade.
Cloud Run Cloud Spanner Official Blog Terraform Sept. 20, 2021Provisioning Cloud Spanner using Terraform - Provisioning and scaling Cloud Spanner and deploying an application on Cloud Run using Terraform templates.
Cloud Spanner Official Blog Sept. 4, 2021More than just relational data at scale with Spanner’s new JSON data type - Achieve better agility and data quality without losing functionality when managing semi-structured data in Cloud Spanner with new JSON data type.
Cloud Spanner NodeJS Official Blog Sept. 4, 2021Deploying a Cloud Spanner-based Node.js application - How to deploy a Node.js application on Cloud Spanner, and cover a few important Cloud Spanner concepts along the way.
Cloud Spanner Official Blog Sept. 4, 2021Reduce latency with Cloud Spanner multi-region leader placement - Some examples of how you can use configurable leader placement to improve application latency when using Cloud Spanner.
BigQuery Cloud Spanner Official Blog Aug. 30, 2021Replicating from Cloud Spanner to BigQuery at scale - Cloud Spanner is Google Cloud's native and distributed Online Transaction Processing System (OLTP). Due to its distributed nature, it can scale horizontally and therefore is suitable for workloads with very high throughputs containing large volumes of data. This invites a huge opportunity to do analytics on top of it.
BigQuery Cloud Spanner Official Blog Aug. 30, 2021Real-time analytics made easy with Cloud Spanner federated queries with BigQuery - Create real-time insights by bridging the gap between operational data and analytics.
Cloud Bigtable Cloud Datastore Cloud Firestore Cloud Spanner Cloud SQL Official Blog Aug. 30, 2021Your Google Cloud database options, explained - Picking the right database for your application is not easy. This post covers the different database options available within Google Cloud across relational (SQL) and non-relational (NoSQL) databases and explains which use cases are best suited for each database option.
Cloud Spanner Official Blog Python Aug. 16, 2021Data Validation for Oracle to Cloud Spanner Migration - Data Validation Tool is an open sourced python CLI based tool that compares heterogeneous data source tables and provides multi-level validation functions. DVT can connect to different types of source and target databases and create validation reports based on the criteria defined. In this blog, we will see how to set up the Data Validation Tool to compare data between Oracle and Spanner tables and create validation reports in BigQuery.
Cloud Spanner Official Blog Aug. 16, 2021Migrating to Cloud Spanner using HarbourBridge and Data Validation Tool - There has recently been a lot of interest in migrating from existing open source relational databases such as MySQL or PostgreSQL to Google Cloud Spanner to enable horizontal scaling. This type of heterogeneous migration can be complicated, however there are two open source tools that can help: HarbourBridge and the Data Validation Tool.
Cloud Spanner Docker July 19, 2021Google Cloud Spanner Emulator Setup - This article will show you how you can set up a Google Cloud Spanner emulator on your local machine for testing, debugging, or configuring CI/CD using Docker Compose.
Cloud Spanner Official Blog July 12, 2021Measuring Cloud Spanner performance for your workload - In this post, we will explore a middle ground to performance testing using JMeter. Performance test Cloud Spanner for a custom workload before making application code changes and executing data migration.
Cloud Spanner Official Blog June 7, 2021Tips for migrating from MySQL to Cloud Spanner - Despite helpful tools like HarbourBridge, database migrations are never trivial. Here are a few things to pay attention to when migrating from MySQL to Spanner, and how to update your application logic to address them.
Beginner Cloud Spanner Official Blog June 7, 2021What is Cloud Spanner? - Want a relational database that scales globally? Learn all about Cloud Spanner.
Cloud Spanner Official Blog May 31, 2021Understanding Cloud Spanner performance metrics at scale with Key Visualizer - We are happy to announce the launch of Key Visualizer, a new interactive monitoring tool to analyze usage patterns in Spanner. It reveals trends and outliers in important performance and resource metrics for any size database.
Cloud Spanner Official Blog May 31, 2021Cloud Spanner trims entry cost by 90%, offers sharper observability and easier querying - New instance sizing and pricing features mean Spanner can support new tasks like development, testing, and small production workloads.
Cloud Dataflow Cloud Spanner Official Blog May 31, 2021Testing Dataflow pipelines with the Cloud Spanner emulator - Existing Dataflow pipelines that are configured to work with Cloud Spanner can be tested with the emulator. This allows for easy offline testing of existing pipelines without connecting to the actual Spanner backend.
Cloud Spanner Official Blog May 31, 2021Faster Cloud Spanner migrations with HarbourBridge's Schema Assistant - Today we’re announcing the HarbourBridge Schema Assistant, which provides a guided schema-design workflow for migrating from MySQL or PostgreSQL to Spanner. HarbourBridge imports dump files (from mysqldump or pg_dump) or directly connects to your source database, and converts the source database schema to an equivalent Spanner schema.
Cloud Spanner May 24, 2021Writing efficient queries for Cloud Spanner interleaved tables - A discussion on how to write efficient queries for Cloud Spanner interleaved tables.
Cloud Spanner May 17, 2021Cloud Spanner Point-In-Time-Recovery: Restoring a Dropped Table - This blog demonstrates how to recover a dropped table using PITR using gcloud commands in Cloud Spanner.
Cloud Spanner Official Blog May 17, 2021Browse and query Cloud Spanner databases from Visual Studio Code - For developers who are building applications that interact with Cloud Spanner, we're excited to announce the Google Cloud Spanner driver for the popular SQLTools extension for VS Code.
Cloud Spanner Official Blog May 10, 2021Include Cloud Spanner databases in your CI/CD process with the Liquibase extension - In February, we announced the beta version of the Liquibase Cloud Spanner extension that allows developers to use Liquibase's open-source database library to manage and automate schema changes in Cloud Spanner. We're happy to share that the Liquibase Cloud Spanner extension is now GA.
.NET Cloud Spanner May 10, 2021Google Cloud Spanner with Entity Framework Core - This article will help you get started with Entity Framework Core for Spanner by creating a simple Console App that uses Spanner with EF Core.
Cloud SDK Cloud Spanner Jupyter Notebook May 3, 2021Managing and Executing gcloud commands in JupyterLab - Example of executing gcloud commands in JupyterLab notebooks.
Cloud Spanner Cloud SQL Official Blog May 3, 20216 database trends to watch - Using managed cloud database services like Cloud SQL, Spanner, and more, can bring performance, scale, and more. See what’s next for modern databases in this infographic.
Cloud Spanner Official Blog Security April 25, 2021Cloud Spanner launches customer-managed encryption keys and Access Approval - See how new customer-managed encryption keys (CMEK) for Google Cloud’s Spanner relational database service help control data protection and security.
Cloud Spanner Official Blog April 19, 2021Tracking index backfill operation progress in Cloud Spanner - Cloud Spanner now provides an ability to track the progress of index backfill. Let us dive deep to understand how you can use the index backfill progress reporting feature.
Cloud Spanner April 19, 2021Benchmark Spanner Change Watcher - Google Cloud Spanner Change Watcher is an open-source library for Google Cloud Spanner for watching and publishing changes from a Cloud Spanner database.
Cloud Spanner Official Blog April 12, 2021Introducing request priorities for Cloud Spanner APIs - You can now specify request priorities for some Cloud Spanner APIs. By assigning a HIGH, MEDIUM, or LOW priority to a specific request, you can now convey the relative importance of workloads, to better align resource usage with performance objectives.
Cloud Spanner Official Blog April 5, 2021Demystifying Cloud Spanner multi-region configurations - Cloud Spanner is a strongly consistent, highly scalable, relational database. It powers billion-user products every month. In order to provide high availability and geographic locality, Cloud Spanner creates multiple copies (aka replicas) of your data and then stores these replicas across different geographical locations. This blog post discusses what this entails.
AWS Cloud Bigtable Cloud Spanner GCP Experience April 5, 2021CloudCover | How to successfully migrate data from DynamoDB to Spanner and Bigtable - Migrating data streaming from AWS to GCP.
Cloud Spanner Official Blog March 22, 2021Cloud Spanner launches point-in-time-recovery capability - Check out Cloud Spanner’s new point-in-time recovery (PITR) capability, offering continuous data protection when you configure the database version retention period.
Cloud Spanner Official Blog March 15, 2021Exploring Cloud Spanner data in DBeaver - We're announcing native support for Cloud Spanner in DBeaver 21.0, a popular open source graphical database development tool that lets you browse and edit databases, create and execute SQL scripts, export data, transaction management and ER diagrams.
Cloud Spanner Official Blog Python Feb. 22, 2021Introducing Django ORM support for Cloud Spanner - Today we're happy to announce beta support for Google Cloud Spanner in the Django ORM. The django-google-spanner package is a third-party database backend for Cloud Spanner, powered by the Cloud Spanner Python client library.
Cloud Spanner Official Blog Feb. 15, 2021Managing schema changes on Cloud Spanner using Liquibase - You can now use Liquibase’s open-source database devops library to manage and automate schema changes in Cloud Spanner.
Cloud Spanner Official Blog Feb. 15, 2021Improved troubleshooting with Cloud Spanner introspection capabilities - Cloud-native database Spanner has new introspection capabilities to monitor database performance and optimize application efficiency.
Apache Beam Cloud Dataflow Cloud Spanner Feb. 1, 2021Data operation with Cloud Spanner using Mercari Dataflow Template - Mercari Dataflow Template is an OSS tool for easy data processing using GCP’s distributed data processing service, Cloud Dataflow. In this article are examples of moving data between BigQuery and Cloud Spanner.
Cloud Spanner GCP Experience Jan. 25, 2021Lock Statistics: Diagnose performance issues in Cloud Spanner - Latency spike caused by lock conflict.
Cloud Spanner Official Blog Jan. 18, 2021Lock Statistics: Diagnose performance issues in Cloud Spanner - This post introduces a newly released introspection tool: Lock statistic, and guides our readers through a simple example of using it to diagnose transaction performance issues caused by lock conflict.
Cloud Spanner Official Blog Jan. 11, 2021Behind the scenes of Cloud Spanner’s ExecuteQuery request - What happens when an application executes a query against Cloud Spanner? This post is going to shed some light on the magic that happens behind the scenes. How does Spanner take an arbitrary SQL statement, locate the data, and return the response in milliseconds? We will take some of the concepts described in SIGMOD’17 paper and explain, step by step, how the execution occurs.
Cloud Spanner Official Blog Jan. 11, 2021The Magic Of Distributed Joins in Cloud Spanner - How do you join two tables when both of them are divided into multiple splits managed by multiple different machines? In this blog entry, we'll describe distributed joins using the Distributed Cross Apply (DCA) operator.
Cloud Spanner Official Blog Dec. 28, 2020You asked, we listened—more productivity features to close out Spanner’s year - From the official Google Cloud blog: see how cloud database Spanner helps developer productivity with new check constraints, generated columns, and NUMERIC data type.
Cloud Spanner Official Blog Dec. 21, 2020Automatically right-size Spanner instances with the new Autoscaler - New Autoscaler lets you scale Spanner instances up and down easily to optimize costs and usage based on utilization.
Cloud Spanner Dec. 7, 2020Implementing Multi-Tenancy in Cloud Spanner - This article describes different architecture approaches to implement multi-tenancy with Cloud Spanner.
Cloud Spanner Java Nov. 22, 2020Testing a Spring Boot application with the Google Cloud Spanner Emulator - Using Cloud Spanner emulator with Spring Boot Java application.
Cloud Spanner Java Nov. 22, 2020Working with Cloud Spanner and Java - Building and application using Cloud Spanner.
Cloud Spanner Nov. 9, 2020Google Cloud Spanner — Critical Concepts - This article details some of the concepts worth understanding when working with Cloud Spanner.
Cloud Spanner Nov. 9, 2020Google Cloud Spanner Nodes - An in-depth explanation of Cloud Spanner Nodes.
Cloud Spanner Oct. 19, 2020Scaling Cloud Spanner Instances - Best practices for scaling up and down Cloud Spanner.
Cloud Spanner Sept. 14, 2020Analyze running queries in Cloud Spanner to help diagnose performance issues - This article discusses how the Oldest Active Queries complements other introspection tools of Spanner and helps users troubleshoot system performance issues while they are ongoing.
Cloud Spanner Aug. 24, 2020Randomized Testing of Cloud Spanner - How randomized testing is used to keep high quality for Cloud Spanner.
Cloud Spanner Official Blog Aug. 24, 20203 reasons to consider Cloud Spanner for your next project - Learn about the cloud database Spanner, which brings massive scale and strong consistency to your applications. Here’s why to consider all-purpose Spanner.
Cloud Bigtable Cloud Spanner Official Blog Aug. 24, 2020The world’s unpredictable, your databases shouldn’t add to it - Check out what’s new in databases and data management at Google Cloud, including news on Spanner local emulator and Bigtable managed backups.
Cloud Spanner Official Blog Aug. 10, 2020New multi-region configurations for Spanner in Asia and Europe - New Cloud Spanner database multi-regions in Asia and Europe bring 5 9s of availability to users for scalability and high availability.
Cloud Spanner July 20, 2020Cloud Spanner: Read Statistics - Spanner read statistics is a new feature that lets you run SQL queries to retrieve read statistics for your database during one-, 10-, and 60-minute intervals. These read statistics allow you to see the most common and most resource-consuming reads executed on your database.
Cloud Spanner July 20, 2020Zero downtime database migration and replication to and from Cloud Spanner - Cloud Spanner migration overview.
Cloud Spanner July 6, 2020Spanner’s SQL Story - A description of evolution of SQL support for Cloud Spanner.
Cloud Spanner June 29, 2020DML and Mutations - a tale of two data altering techniques in Cloud Spanner - In the article are described two APIs in Cloud Spanner that you can use to modify data: Data Manipulation Language (DML) and Mutations.
Cloud Spanner Official Blog June 29, 2020Increase visibility into Cloud Spanner performance with transaction stats - Cloud Spanner now offers transaction statistics, so you can run SQL queries to retrieve these stats for your database over several time periods.
Cloud Functions Cloud Scheduler Cloud Spanner June 1, 2020Create Cloud Spanner Scheduled Backups - This tutorial shows how to use the Scheduled Backups tool to configure Cloud Scheduler for creating Cloud Spanner backups on a regular basis.
Advanced Cloud Spanner May 25, 2020How Does Spanner Avoid Single Point of Failures in Writes? - Explanation of how Cloud Spanner provides both high availability and high consistency in writes.
Cloud Spanner May 18, 2020Launch checklist for Cloud Spanner - This launch checklist provides a list of considerations that need to be made prior to launching a production application on Cloud Spanner. It is not intended to be exhaustive, but serves to highlight areas that can have a large impact on production performance.
Cloud Spanner Official Blog April 27, 2020Back up on demand, emulate and develop with ease — new Spanner features - Cloud database service Spanner adds backup-restore feature plus new developer features, like local emulator, query optimizer versioning, and more.
Cloud Spanner Go April 20, 2020Google Cloud Spanner driver for Go - Google Cloud Spanner driver for database/sql.
Cloud Spanner Google Kubernetes Engine April 20, 2020Spanning the Globe without Google Spanner - The article explains how to set up YugabyteDB (a database inspired by Spanner) on GKE cluster.
Cloud Spanner April 13, 2020Cloud Spanner Emulator - A local, in-memory, high-fidelity emulator of the Cloud Spanner service.
Cloud Spanner March 23, 2020spannerz, a tool for Cloud Spanner - spannerz adds an HTTP handler to your binary to report query plans from Google Cloud Spanner clients. You can use spannerz as a standalone binary too.
Cloud Spanner Feb. 10, 2020Internals of Google Cloud Spanner - Overview of Google Cloud Spanner internals and how the Cloud Spanner works with regional and multi-regional settings.
Cloud Spanner Official Blog Serverless Nov. 11, 2019Opening the door to more dev tools for Cloud Spanner - Learn how to integrate a graphical database development tool with cloud databases like Cloud Spanner with the JDBC driver.
Cloud Spanner Official Blog Sept. 30, 2019Cloud Spanner amps up SLA, adds CSV support, and sharpens monitoring details - Google’s Cloud Spanner database expands its availability SLA to all instances, and adds CSV support, more detailed monitoring data, and more features.
Cloud Spanner Data Analytics Aug. 19, 2019How to connect Tableau to Google Cloud Spanner - The article describes how to connect Tableau with Cloud Spanner.
Cloud Spanner GCP Experience Official Blog July 15, 2019Blockchain.com, scaling and saving with Cloud Spanner - Cryptocurrency company Blockchain uses Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to scale its products and serve millions of users securely.
AWS Cloud Spanner NoSQL July 1, 2019Database Migration : Migrating from DynamoDB to Google Cloud Spanner (Part 1) - The article goes through the process of migrating from DynamoDB to Cloud Spanner.
AWS Cloud Spanner NoSQL July 1, 2019Database Migration : Migrating from DynamoDB to Google Cloud Spanner (Part 2) - Second article related to migration from DynamoDB to Cloud Spanner
Cloud Spanner Official Blog June 3, 2019Build your own event-sourced system using Cloud Spanner - Using event-sourced systems can help solve complex application development problems. Here’s how to deploy one using Cloud Spanner.
Cloud Spanner Feb. 25, 2019Impossible read and write isolation phenomena with Cloud Spanner - How the 6 transaction isolation phenomenon aren’t allowed in Cloud Spanner.
Cloud Spanner PHP Feb. 25, 2019Colopl open sourced a Cloud Spanner driver for Laravel framework - Open source PHP driver for Cloud Spanner
Cloud Spanner Jan. 28, 2019Spanning The Database World With Google - Interview with Andrew Fikes (Google) about Spanner.
Cloud Spanner Official Blog Jan. 14, 2019Rethinking commercial software delivery with Cloud Spanner and serverless - Serverless computing and globally distributed databases like Spanner can drive down operational costs and enable niche vendors to enter the market.
Cloud Spanner Official Blog Dec. 24, 2018Cloud Spanner adds enhanced query introspection, new regions, and new multi-region configurations - Few enhancements for Cloud Spanner like Query introspection, New multi-region configurations and new regions.
Cloud Spanner GCP Experience Official Blog Nov. 5, 2018How Streak built a graph database on Cloud Spanner to wrangle billions of emails - Streak is a customer relationship management (CRM) tool built directly into Gmail. Learn how Streak built a graph database on Cloud Spanner to wrangle billions of emails.
Cloud Spanner Nov. 5, 2018Cloud Spanner Connector for Apache Spark - Cloud Spanner Connector for Apache Spark is a library to support Apache Spark to access Cloud Spanner as an external data source or sink.
Cloud Spanner Oct. 22, 2018spanner-cli, the Cloud Spanner command line interface - Interactive command line tool for controlling Spanner databases.
Cloud Bigtable Cloud Spanner Oct. 15, 2018Develop and deploy apps more easily with Cloud Spanner and Cloud Bigtable updates - The general availability of two important new features for two of GCP's cloud-native database offerings: Cloud Spanner and Cloud Bigtable.
Cloud Spanner Sept. 3, 2018Search on Google Cloud Platform — Spanner - Implement Search on Google Cloud Platform using Spanner.
BigQuery Cloud Spanner Cloud SQL Official Blog July 30, 2018On GCP, your database your way - New database features to get the most out of your databases for your business.
Cloud Spanner Official Blog July 23, 2018Cloud Spanner adds import/export functionality to ease data movement - You can now import and export data easily in the Cloud Spanner Console.
Cloud Spanner Official Blog June 11, 2018What DBAs need to know about Cloud Spanner, part 1: Keys and indexes - Key differences that DBAs need to know when moving from traditional RDBMS to Cloud Spanner.
Cloud Spanner Official Blog May 21, 2018Sharding of timestamp-ordered data in Cloud Spanner - How to efficiently insert and retrieve records in Cloud Spanner with timestamp ordering.
Cloud Spanner April 30, 2018Cloud Spanner — Maximizing data load throughput - Strategies for maximizing write throughput to Cloud Spanner.
Cloud Spanner April 30, 2018Cloud OnAir: Cloud Spanner: How It Works - How Cloud Spanner operates and how it guarantees external consistency on reads and writes.
Cloud Bigtable Cloud Spanner Cloud SQL April 30, 2018Accelerating innovation for cloud-native managed databases - Cloud database improvements for Cloud Spanner, Bigtable, Redis and PostgreSQL.
Cloud Spanner Official Blog April 2, 2018How we used Cloud Spanner to build our email personalization system—from “Soup” to nuts - Tokyo-based Recruit Technologies Co., Ltd., migrated their email marketing platform to Cloud Spanner. This article explores the key aspects of migration and takeaways.
BigQuery Cloud Spanner Dataflow Google Kubernetes Engine Official Blog April 2, 2018Architecting live NCAA predictions: from archives to insights - Article explores architecting NCAA real-time predictions, achieved through a few months of data ingestion, ETL, analysis, and modeling.
Cloud Spanner April 2, 2018Cloud Spanner — Choosing the right primary keys - This article covers how to choose the right primary keys to enable scalable data writes in Cloud Spanner.
Cloud Spanner GCP Experience March 26, 2018The new Dragon Ball game is powered by Google’s cloud
Beginner Cloud Spanner Tutorial March 12, 2018First Steps with Google Cloud Spanner - Learn basics of Google Cloud Spanner.
Cloud Spanner March 5, 2018Announcing Google Cloud Spanner as a Vault storage backend - Cloud Spanner can be used now as a storage backend for HashiCorp Vault.
Business Cloud Spanner GCP Experience Feb. 26, 2018Making the jump to Google Cloud Spanner - Transition from Oracle to Google Cloud Spanner
Cloud Spanner Cloud Storage Official Blog Feb. 26, 2018How Google Cloud Storage offers strongly consistent object listing thanks to Spanner - Secret behind the strong list consistency offered by Google Cloud Storage.
Cloud Spanner Jan. 29, 2018Practical Tradeoffs in Google Cloud Spanner, Azure Cosmos DB and YugaByte DB - Deep dive on practical tradeoffs of modern cloud-native databases such as Google Cloud Spanner, Azure Cosmos DB and YugaByte DB
Cloud Spanner Jan. 15, 2018Why you should pick strong consistency, whenever possible - This article explains features of Cloud Spanner like unique combination of external, strong consistency, relational semantics, high availability and horizontal scaling.
Cloud Spanner Nov. 20, 2017With Multi-Region support in Cloud Spanner, have your cake and eat it too - Spanner Multi Regional option is now Generally Available. Strong global consistency across continents is possible.
Cloud Spanner Nov. 20, 2017The Architext Show Podcast - Google's Deepti Srivastava on multi-region Spanner and case for cloud databases
Cloud Spanner Oct. 30, 2017Google Cloud Spanner: Going global with relational database - GDG DevFest Ukraine 2017
Cloud Spanner Oct. 2, 2017How we built a brand new bank on GCP and Cloud Spanner: Shine - Description of creating bank in cloud.
Business Cloud Spanner Sept. 11, 2017Google Cloud Spanner: The next big transformation in financial services? - Why Google Cloud Spanner could be suitable cloud database for financial institutions.
Cloud Spanner July 24, 2017How to get started with Cloud Spanner in 5 minutes - How to create Google Cloud Spanner instance in few lines of shell
Cloud Spanner July 10, 2017Google's Cloud Spanner: how does it stack up?
Cloud Spanner June 26, 2017Cloud database technology can no longer be ignored in financial services - Article about how Google Cloud Platform offers products and services which can be used by financial institutions
Cloud Spanner June 26, 2017Build an Application at Google Scale with Spanner, Cloud Foundry, and Google Cloud Platform
Cloud Spanner June 4, 2017From NoSQL to new SQL: How Spanner became a global, mission-critical database - Story of how Spanner was developed
Cloud Spanner May 22, 2017Cloud Spanner is now production-ready; let the migrations begin!
Cloud Spanner May 22, 2017Cloud Spanner 101: Google's Mission-Critical Relational Database
Cloud Natural Language API Cloud Spanner May 8, 2017Google Cloud Natural Language API launches new features and Cloud Spanner graduating to GA - Cloud Natural Language API now supports 9 languages
Cloud Spanner April 10, 2017Spanner vs. Calvin: distributed consistency at scale - Design comparison for Spaner and Calving - geographically replicated, ACID, transactional database systems
Cloud Spanner April 3, 2017Basic Cloud Spanner Setup for a Java App Engine Project
Cloud Spanner March 13, 2017Google Cloud Spanner: our first impressions - Guys from company OpenCredo share their insights regarding Spanner
Cloud Spanner Feb. 27, 2017Cloud Spanner Feb. 27, 2017GCP podcast #62 - Cloud Spanner with Deepti Srivastava
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