Spanner is a distributed SQL database management and storage service developed by Google. It provides features such as global transactions, strongly consistent reads, and automatic multi-site replication and failover. Spanner is used in Google F1, the database for its advertising business Google Ads, as well as Gmail and Google Photos.
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SignificanceA globally distributed SQL database offering strong consistency at scale, underlying core Google services including Ads and Gmail. 1 Connections
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CockroachDB, Systems CockroachDB's consistency model was designed to match the capabilities of Google Spanner as closely as possible, without requiring Spanner's specialized time-synchronization hardware; its founders had used Google's Bigtable and Spanner before starting Cockroach Labs.
Source Wikipedia: CockroachDB
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Source Wikipedia: Google Cloud Spanner
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1. Wikipedia: Google Cloud Spanner
Wikimedia FoundationHistory
It became available as part of Google Cloud Platform in 2017, under the name "Cloud Spanner".
In Field: Databases, Lead
Spanner is a distributed SQL database management and storage service developed by Google.
View the Source Wikidata: Spanner
- Wikidata Q4049850, resolved via en.wikipedia pageprops (wave rule R-L)
- In Group: Cloud Database, Wikidata lists Google Cloud Spanner (Q4049850) as an instance of cloud database (Q2499178)
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Wikimedia FoundationAssociated With: CockroachDB, Lead sectionQuote, Associated With: CockroachDB, Lead section
CockroachDB is a source-available distributed SQL database management system developed by Cockroach Labs.
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