Spanner has been in development for around five years, with information first leaking out about the technology in the press in 2009. Google hopes the database community will follow its lead in ...

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.

T.C. Sottek is executive editor who has obsessed over headlines and internet speeds since 2011. He previously worked as an advocate for the National Park System. Google's Spanner database is ...

Cloud Spanner, Google’s globally distributed cloud database got an update today that includes multi-region support, meaning the database can be replicated across regions for lower latency and ...