Google’s Cloud Spanner: how does it stack up?
September 11, 2025
A couple of months ago, I wrote an in-depth piece on
Microsoft’s Cosmos DB
, which is Redmond’s entry into the world globally-distributed cloud databases. The announcement of Cosmos DB’s general availability (GA) took place in coordination with the company’s
Build
event, held in May. The following week, Google announced that the GA of
Cloud Spanner
, a globally-distributed operational database of its own. [1]
[1] By
Andrew Brust
on
ZDNet
