Resources

• Build with Google Cloud Spanner [New*]

• How to plan and run a Spanner POC [New*]

• An Overview of Spanner Migration [New*]

• Scaling Cloud Spanner

• Cloud Spanner Anti-Patterns & Table Splits

• Getting started with Cloud Spanner Client Libraries & ORMs

• Cloud Spanner & Liquibase: DevOps for Databases

• Demystifying Cloud Spanner multi-region configurations

• Cloud Spanner 101: Google’s mission-critical relational database

• Spanner Internals Part 1: What Makes Spanner Tick?

• Spanner Internals Part 2: Global Meta-Data and Scalable Data Backend

• Best Practices on Migrating to Cloud Spanner

• Ben Sigelman presents the Spanner whitepaper

• Google Cloud Platform Podcast

• Software Engineering Daily

• The Architect

• Google Cloud Spanner Developers, San Francisco, CA

• Official Documentation

• Best Practices

• API Reference

• GCP Weekly: Spanner

• Spanner: Google’s Globally-Distributed Database

• Spanner, TrueTime and the CAP Theorem

• Spanner: Becoming a SQL System

Client libraries

• Authentication via Application Default Credentials (ADC)

• Java (tutorial)

• Go (tutorial)

• Node.js (tutorial)

• Python (tutorial)

• PHP (tutorial)

• Ruby (tutorial)

• C# (tutorial)

Drivers

• Google’s OSS JDBC driver

• Simba JDBC driver

• R2DBC driver

• Go database/sql driver

• Laravel database driver

ORMs

• Django

• Hibernate ORM

• Spring Data

• Third-party ORM and framework support

• Tutorial: Measure Cloud Spanner performance using JMeter [New*]

• Spanner Console

• Spanner command-line

• gcloud Reference

• Spanner Emulator

• Spanner Autoscaler - Automatically adjust the number of nodes in Spanner instances based on utilization.

• wrench - Schema management tool for Spanner.

• hammer - Schema management tool for Spanner.

• yo - A command-line tool to generate Go code for Google Cloud Spanner.

• handy-spanner - An unofficial SQLite backed Spanner emulator.

• spannerz - Query planner visualizer that also provides introspection tools for Go programs.

• spanner-dump - A command-line tool to export Cloud Spanner databases in text format.

• spanner-truncate - A command-line tool to delete all rows from a Cloud Spanner database without deleting tables themselves.

• Chef

• Puppet

• Terraform

• Migration from PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, DynamoDB.

• HarbourBridge - PostgreSQL to Spanner schema and data migrator.

• pgadapter - A proxy that translates the wire protocol from Postgres to Cloud Spanner.

• migrate - A migration tool with Spanner support.

• Query Execution Plans

• SQL Best Practices

• CPU Utilization

• Latency Debugging

• Distributed Tracing and Client Metrics