Configure Cloud spanner in GCP

How Does Cloud Spanner Ensures High Availability?

Cloud Spanner provides high availability through automatic replication of data across the available regions. This helps providing data is case of any regional outage happens.

What Is The Difference Between Cloud Sql And Cloud Spanner?

Cloud SQL and Cloud Spanner, both are database services provided by Google Cloud Platform. Cloud SQL is a fully managed relational database service that supports popular database engines like MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQL Server while Cloud Spanner is a globally distributed, horizontally scalable relational database service.

Is Cloud Spanner Serverless ?

No, Cloud Spanner is not serverless. Cloud spanner uses managed instance as used by Cloud SQL . Cloud Spanner runs on a virtual server and it’s not available to the users.

What Is Cost Of Using Cloud Spanner?

Cloud spanner pricing is based on the resource consumption, which includes storage, nodes, etc. As it is a cloud service, it also uses the pay-as-you-go model. For the configurations we have made in our Cloud Spanner, you can check the pricing in the summary screenshot attached for a reference.

How To Configure Cloud Spanner In GCP ?

In today’s era when data is everywhere, the demand for databases which can seamlessly accumulate massive amount of data is increasing. Databases also have to provide consistency, reliability and high availability. Google Cloud Platform is one of famous cloud providers in the market providing cloud solutions including storage and databases. Cloud Spanner is a fully managed, scalable, distributed database service, offered by Google Cloud Platform. Cloud Spanner combines the benefits of a traditional relational database system with the scale and flexibility of a NoSQL database. In this article we will be learning about, how we can create and configure Cloud Spanner in Google Cloud Platform.