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6 min

Transforming Customer Experiences With Modern Cloud Database Capabilities

From professional sports leagues to kidney care and digital commerce, Google Cloud databases enable organizations to develop radically transformative experiences for their users. The stories of how Google Cloud Databases…

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5 min

Engineering

SIGOPS Hall Of Fame Goes To Spanner Paper — Here’s Why That Matters

Earlier this month, SIGOPS announced that it had selected the paper, “Spanner: Google’s Globally-Distributed Database” for the 2022 SIGOPS Hall of Fame Award, an honor bestowed on the most influential…

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6 min

Why Should Game Companies Choose Cloud Spanner To Power Their Games

Organizations globally use Cloud Spanner, because of its unlimited scale, strong consistency, and up to 99.999% of availability. In particular, game companies, like Embark Studios use Spanner to help scale…

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11 min

A Deep Dive Into Spanner’s Query Optimizer

Spanner is a fully managed, distributed relational database that provides unlimited scale, global consistency, and up to five 9s availability. It was originally built to address Google’s needs to scale…

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3 min

Engineering

Come For The Sample App, Stay For The Main Course: Cloud Spanner Free Trial Instances

Cloud Spanner is a fully managed relational database that offers unlimited scale, strong consistency, and industry leading high availability of up to 99.999%. In our ongoing quest to make Spanner…

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8 min

Engineering

Spanner On A Modern Columnar Storage Engine

Google was born in the cloud. At Google, we have been running massive infrastructure that powers critical internal and external facing services for more than two decades. Our investment in…

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3 min

Platforms

Vimeo Builds A Fully Responsive Video Platform On Google Cloud

Editor’s note: The video platform Vimeo leverages managed database services from Google Cloud to serve up billions of views around the world each day. Here’s how they deliver a consistent…

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Spanner

SIGOPS Hall Of Fame Goes To Spanner Paper — Here’s Why That Matters

A Deep Dive Into Spanner’s Query Optimizer

Come For The Sample App, Stay For The Main Course: Cloud Spanner Free Trial Instances

Spanner On A Modern Columnar Storage Engine

Vimeo Builds A Fully Responsive Video Platform On Google Cloud

IBM Study: One in Four Malicious Breaches are AI-Enabled, Costing Companies $6 Million on Average

Accelerating the frontiers of scientific discovery: Google’s $40M commitment to the Genesis Mission

3 Questions: Neural transparency and the future of AI design

Intel Invests €5 Billion to Expand Manufacturing in Europe

IBM and Red Hat Expand Lightwell with New Offerings to Build the Trust Infrastructure for AI-Era Open Source

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