# Google Cloud Spanner Reviews
**Vendor:** Google  
**Category:** [Relational Databases](https://www.g2.com/categories/relational-databases)  
**Average Rating:** 4.2/5.0  
**Total Reviews:** 36
## About Google Cloud Spanner
The first horizontally scalable, strongly consistent, relational database service





## Google Cloud Spanner Discussions
  - [How does Google Cloud Spanner work?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/how-does-google-cloud-spanner-work)
  - [What is GCP Cloud Spanner?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-gcp-cloud-spanner)
  - [What is spanner used for at Google?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-spanner-used-for-at-google)
  - [Which of the following are the features of Cloud Spanner?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/which-of-the-following-are-the-features-of-cloud-spanner)
  - [Could you please provide more information about the product and make it easily available so that all we get to know about this productuct](https://www.g2.com/discussions/could-you-please-provide-more-information-about-the-product-and-make-it-easily-available-so-that-all-we-get-to-know-about-this-productuct) - 1 upvote

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## Google Cloud Spanner Features
**Management **
- Data Schema
- Query Language
- ACID - Complaint
- Data Replication

**Configuration**
- Application Performance
- Orchestration
- Database Monitoring
- Anomaly Detection
- Network Security

**Support **
- Text Search
- Data Types
- Languages
- Operating Systems

**Database Administration**
- Provisioning
- Governance
- Auditing

**Security**
- Database Locking
- Access Control
- Encryption
- Authentication

**Availability**
- Scalability
- Backup
- Archiving
- Indexing

**Security**
- Data Masking
- Authentication And Single Sign-On
- Data Anonymization

**Performance **
- Disaster Recovery
- Data Concurrency
- Workload Management
- Advanced Indexing
- Query Optimizer

**Data Management**
- Data Replication
- Advanced Data Analytics

**Database Features**
- Storage
- Availability
- Stability
- Scalability
- Security
- Data Manipulation
- Query Language

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