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Google Opens Up Spanner Database With PostgreSQL Interface

October 13, 2021 Timothy Prickett Morgan 1

Search engine and cloud computing juggernaut Google is hosting its Google Cloud Next ’21 conference this week, and one of the more interesting things that the company unveiled is several layers of software that makes its Spanner globally distributed relational database look and feel like the popular open source PostgreSQL relational database. …

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February 15, 2017 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

Google has proven time and again it is on the extreme bleeding edge of invention when it comes to scale out architectures that make supercomputers look like toys. …

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