Spanner’s Standard Edition

Spanner, a globally consistent, always-on database with almost infinite scalability. It supports many forward-thinking organisations' data-driven changes

Spanner Graph simplifies pattern matching, relationship navigation, and filtering across interconnected data for fraud detection, community discovery

Generative AI uses approximation closest neighbour techniques for semantic information retrieval, invented by Google

The Standard edition includes scheduled backups and reverse ETL from BigQuery in addition to all GA capabilities in single-region scenarios

Spanner's Standard version offers single-region deployments with transparent failover, synchronous replication, and automatic sharding for almost limitless scalability and 99.99% availability

Data Boost and BigQuery federation strengthen Spanner's connection to BigQuery, and Google is adding reverse ETL and external datasets

MySQL or other complicated application-level sharding with Spanner. The nativePostgreSQL interface of Spanner lets you upgrade programs without reducing functionality

ETL pipelines, data silos, Spanner Data Boost, and BigQuery federation may create a single source-of-truth database and assess current data