Google today announced the beta launch of Cloud Spanner, a new globally distributed database service for mission-critical applications. Cloud Spanner joins Google’s other cloud-based database ...

Google’s recently announced Spanner cloud database is ushering in a wave of so-called NewSQL databases that support traditional schematics but are able to scale to global sizes.

If this was easy, Google would have long since done it or someone else cloning Google’s ideas would have, and thus relational databases that provide high availability, horizontal scalability, and ...

Google Cloud today announced key updates to some of its most important database platforms, including a free trial for anyone looking to test Cloud Spanner, plus a new service for BigQuery called ...

At the recent Cloud Next conference in Tokyo, Google announced Spanner Graph, a managed feature that integrates graph, relational, search, and AI capabilities within Spanner. This new database ...

Relational databases are back in vogue, due in part by Google showing that a true relational database is can scale with the advent of Spanner. And to try to encourage adoption of Spanner on the cloud, ...

Google Cloud is looking to take on rivals such as Oracle Corp. and Amazon Web Services Inc. in the database arena with AlloyDB, a new, fully managed and PostgreSQL-compatible relational database ...

Google Cloud Spanner, released last year, is Google's modern take on relational databases. NoSQL column storage is available with Cloud Bigtable, while Cloud Datastore offers a NoSQL document ...

Google's new features include Gemini in BigQuery and Looker to help users with data engineering and analysis.

Google is dramatically expanding its database capabilities for AI, with vector search support now coming to all of its cloud databases.

AWS, Microsoft, and Google back Linux Foundation’s DocumentDB, offering enterprises a cost-effective, open-source NoSQL alternative.