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Cloud Spanner - Google Cloud Platform Tutorial

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Cloud Spanner

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- [Instructor] Cloud Spanner, as it says here, is the only enterprise-grade globally distributed and strongly consistent database service, was built for the cloud specifically to combine the benefits of relational database structure with non-relational horizontal scale. It's very unique in that it combines the ability to have transactions or transactionally consistent applications. It uses SQL queries and a relational tabular structure with the scalability that you are going to typically associate with non-relational or no SQL databases. It really is unique and it's not for every solution, but it is a powerful service. This is a sketch note from one of the Google developer advocates, and it really explains some of the internal workings. I highly recommend that you also read the associated white paper on the Paxos algorithm which explains the global consistency shown in the bottom left using true time. Spanner is used…

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