GoogleGoogle Cloud Platform Business Professional·EN·Updated 11 Jul 2026
Cloud Spanner is:
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Correct answer: An enterprise-grade, globally distributed, and strongly consistent managed database service built for the cloud specifically to combine the benefits of relational database structure with non-relational horizontal scale..
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Cloud Spanner is the Google Cloud database service for relational workloads that need global scale. It combines SQL, schemas, and ACID transactions with automatic replication and horizontal scaling . Its strong consistency makes it suitable for applications that cannot tolerate conflicting database states across regions. This role is different from container deployment, basic relational database administration, or batch data processing.