One of the biggest obstacles faced by enterprises pursuing digital transformation is the challenge of migrating off of legacy databases. These databases are typically locked into on-premises data centers, expensive to upgrade and difficult to maintain.  We want to make it easier. To that end, we’ve built an open source toolkit that can help you […]

Customers tell us that sharing and exchanging data with other organizations is a critical element of their analytics strategy, but it’s hamstrung by unreliable data and processes, and only getting harder with security threats and privacy regulations on the rise.  Furthermore, traditional data sharing techniques use batch data pipelines that are expensive to run, create […]

Every company in every industry is on a journey to become more data-driven whether that’s providing great digital experiences to customers, or driving operational excellence through AI, or detecting hidden patterns in data to improve decision making.  To help with this transformation, we are excited to announce new products and services designed to fully unify […]

Google Cloud database services provide a trusted platform for always-on applications with global reach and unlimited scale. Today, we are excited to announce that Bigtable joins Firestore and Cloud Spanner with an industry-leading 99.999% availability SLA. This new SLA builds on the new security features that we launched recently, Customer-managed encryption keys (CMEK) and Data […]

Cloud Spanner is a distributed relational database that’s designed for consistency and availability at scale. Like Google’s best known products, organizations in financial services, retail, gaming, and many other industries also rely on Spanner for their most demanding “run-the-business” workloads. The development and operations (DevOps) teams running these applications need to understand how Spanner uses […]

Customers love Cloud Spanner because it gives them the benefits of relational semantics and SQL while also delivering the scale and availability of non-relational databases. Many of these customers want to move even more of their work to Spanner, and have requested smaller instance sizes to support development, testing and small production workloads. We’re happy […]

Today, we’re announcing Datastream, a serverless change data capture (CDC) and replication service, available now in preview. Datastream allows enterprises to synchronize data across heterogeneous databases, storage systems, and applications reliably and with minimal latency to support real-time analytics, database replication, and event-driven architectures. You can now easily and seamlessly deliver change streams from Oracle […]

The speed with which businesses are able to respond to change is the difference between those that successfully navigate the future and those that get left behind. Answering “What has happened” isn’t enough – businesses now need to know “What is happening now” and “What might happen”, and take proactive action in response. Addressing these […]

Enterprises are struggling to make high quality data easily discoverable and accessible for analytics, across multiple silos, to a growing number of people and tools within their organization. They are often forced to make tradeoffs—to move and duplicate data across silos to enable diverse analytics use cases or leave their data distributed but limit the […]