The third core storage option offered by Google
Cloud is Cloud Spanner. Cloud Spanner is a fully managed relational
database service that scales horizontally, is strongly consistent, and speaks SQL. Battle tested by Google’s own mission-critical
applications and services, Spanner is the service that powers Google’s $80 billion
business. Cloud Spanner is especially suited for applications
that require: A SQL relational database management system
with joins and secondary indexes Built-in high availability Strong global consistency
And high numbers of input and output operations per second. We’re talking tens of thousands of reads
and writes per second or more.