From MySQL to Spanner: Simplifying Your Migration Journey

Google Cloud Next 25 introduced new capabilities, performance, and migration tools to help migrate MySQL workloads to Spanner, Google Cloud's horizontally scalable, always-on operational database

Today's availability and scale needs exceed MySQL's design. Manual replication and sharding are dangerous and complicated solutions that emerge when the firm is least ready for them

Spanner helps organizations with application growth and modernization migrate production workloads from MySQL securely and quickly with little downtime

Google Cloud added a robust new set of relational features to Spanner that closely map to MySQL in order to substantially lower the cost and complexity of moving application code and queries

MySQL developers will be accustomed to it, and it provides them with more tools to boost efficiency considerably

In fact, compared to what was previously feasible in Spanner, the majority of popular workloads can experience a 5x improvement in latency

The advantages of switching from MySQL to Spanner, emphasising how conventional databases like MySQL find it difficult to meet the availability and scalability requirements of contemporary applications