Starting with the essentials is a good idea when learning a wide range of things. Google Cloud has one of the most popular databases named Spanner.
So,here is a high-level overview on what Spanner is, how it’s components and architecture look like, and benefits of Spanner compared to its alternatives.
Cloud Spanner is a highly scalable database that combines unlimited scalability with relational semantics, such as secondary indexes, strong consistency, schemas, and SQL providing 99.999% availability in one easy solution.Hence, it’s suitable for both relational and non-relational workloads.
