{"id":341076,"date":"2017-05-16T23:00:12","date_gmt":"2017-05-16T15:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/?p=1491062"},"modified":"2017-05-16T23:00:12","modified_gmt":"2017-05-16T15:00:12","slug":"googles-globally-distributed-cloud-spanner-database-service-is-now-generally-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/googles-globally-distributed-cloud-spanner-database-service-is-now-generally-available\/","title":{"rendered":"Google\u2019s globally distributed Cloud Spanner database service is now generally available"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Google today announced that Cloud Spanner, its globally distributed relational database service, is now generally available after what was a relatively short four-month<\/a> beta period.<\/p>\n

When it launched, Google positioned the service as an alternative for businesses that were about to outgrow their existing relational databases. \u201cIf you are struggling with the scale of your transactional database \u2014 you will go to a<\/span> sharded<\/span><\/a> database<\/a>, or NoSQL,\u201d Google\u2019s Deepti Srivastava said. \u201cIf y<\/span>ou\u2019re<\/span> at that stage where you have to make those trade-offs, Spanner is the way to go. You are already doing work to use one of those systems. We try to make that trade-off as simple as possible.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Now that it is generally available, Google promises its users a 99.999 percent availability and strong consistency. \u201cAs a combined software\/hardware solution that includes atomic clocks and GPS receivers across Google\u2019s global network, Cloud<\/span> Spanner<\/span> also offers additional accuracy, reliability and performance in the form of a fully-managed cloud<\/span> database service,\u201d Google claims in its blog post today.<\/p>\n