Back in 2012, Google unveiled Spanner — a globe-spanning database technology, the first of its kind, designed to keep the search advertising giant's massive online operations in sync all over the ...

Google's Cloud Spanner is now half the cost of Amazon's DynamoDB "for most workloads," Google says. And Google doesn't want you to forget it. Google today announced that Cloud Spanner, its distributed ...

There is an old joke that in the post-apocalyptic world that comes about because of plague or nuclear war, only two things will be left alive: cockroaches and Keith Richards, the guitarist for the ...

Ever wonder how Google has been able to coordinate its data centers from all over the world? Well, they found a way to take control of time. Yes, time. And they did so by building the world’s first ...

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Google LLC today introduced a new version of Cloud Spanner, one of its managed database services, that will enable customers to process their information faster and more cost-efficiently. The company ...

Google today added multi-region support to Cloud Spanner, meaning that the global database service announced in February is now actually a global service. Cloud Spanner makes it easier for developers ...

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Search engine and cloud computing juggernaut Google is hosting its Google Cloud Next ’21 conference this week, and one of the more interesting things that the company unveiled is several layers of ...