Week 6 of Google Cloud Next ‘20: OnAir was all about Google Cloud databases and how to choose and use them, no matter where you are in your cloud journey. There was plenty to explore, from deep-dive sessions and demos to feature launches and customer stories. Across it all, what stood out is the strong momentum and adoption across Google Cloud databases for developers and enterprises alike.
Google Cloud’s range of databases are designed to help you tackle the unpredictable. Your databases shouldn’t get in the way of innovation and growth, but many legacy, on-prem databases are holding businesses back. We build our databases to meet you at any stage, whether it’s an as-is migration or a brand-new app developed in the cloud.
Key data management announcements this week
This week, we launched new features aimed at solving the hardest data problems to help our customers run the most mission-critical applications. We kicked off the week with a keynote from Director of Product Management Penny Avril, who talked with social media platform ShareChat about how they met a 500% increase in demand using Cloud Spanner without changing a line of code.
We also announced updates to our databases. For Spanner, the Spanner Emulator lets app developers do correctness testing when developing an app. A new C++ client library and increased SQL feature set also add more flexibility. In addition, cloud-native Spanner now offers new multi-region configurations for Asia and Europe with 99.999% availability. NoSQL database service Cloud Bigtable now offers more capabilities, like managed backups for high business continuity and added data protection. And expanded support and SLA for single-node production instances makes it even easier to use Bigtable for all use cases, both large and small. Mobile and web developers use Cloud Firestore to build apps easily, and it now offers a richer query language, C++ client library, and Firestore Unity SDK to make it easy for game developers to adopt Firestore. We are also introducing tools to give you better visibility into usage patterns and performance with Firestore Key Visualizer, which will be coming soon.
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