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Cloud Spanner

Cloud Spanner

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Cloud Spanner

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- [Instructor] Cloud Spanner is a relational database that provides SQL-driven data management. It eliminates the traditional limitations of RDBMS when it comes to scalability. You get RDBMS consistency and ACID compliance while being able to horizontally scale like NoSQL databases. It is the best of both worlds. It is a GCP native product, as such, it is only available on GCP. It provides excellent transaction support for online transaction processing on OLTP-kind of applications. It can scale to petabytes of data horizontally. It is also fully-managed and GCP takes care of most of the administration tasks required from DBAs. What are the strengths of Cloud Spanner? It provides the best of both RDBMS and NoSQL worlds. It supports ACID transactions. It provides horizontal scalability. It is fully-managed and eliminates most of the DBA work. It has a very good integrated security system to control access by various entities. What are its shortcomings? It is a GCP-only product so using…

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