Spanner

Spanner queues are <a href="https://cloud.google.com/products/#product-launch-stages">generally available (GA)</a>. Spanner queues provide transactional messaging to help you manage asynchronous…

Spanner Graph supports the following enhancements for CREATE PROPERTY GRAPH: • Semantic options for labels and properties: You can configure OPTIONS (description and synonyms) on labels and…

Spanner supports the following PostgreSQL-dialect database operators: • ILIKE (~~*) • NOT ILIKE (!~~*) Spanner supports the following PostgreSQL-dialect database functions: • pg.ilike •…

Spanner supports creating tables without defining primary keys. When you create a table without a primary key, Spanner creates a hidden rowid column that serves as the primary key. For more…

You can use Gemini in Spanner Studio to fix errors in your SQL queries. When you run a query that contains an error, you can click Fix to view a line-by-line comparison of your query and a…

Spanner supports <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/spanner/docs/latency-points#direct_connectivity">direct connectivity</a>. When enabled, your application traffic is routed directly to Spanner…

Spanner Graph supports a suite of <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/spanner/docs/graph/graph-algorithms-overview">graph algorithms</a> covering use cases such as fraud detection, entity…

You can optimize Spanner Graph query performance by using factorized execution. If a graph pattern traversal generates duplicate intermediate results, add the @{factorize_mode} hint to the pattern…

The Spanner change streams default <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/spanner/docs/change-streams#data-retention">retention period</a> has been increased from 1 day to 7 days. This change affects…

Spanner supports the FACTORIZED_MODE join hint. You can control which sides of a join to factorize (deduplicate) before executing the join by using the FACTORIZE_LEFT, FACTORIZE_RIGHT, or…

Spanner <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/spanner/docs/vector-indexes">vector index</a> and <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/spanner/docs/find-approximate-nearest-neighbors">approximate…

Spanner full-text search supports <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/spanner/docs/full-text-search/search-query-enhancement#custom-dictionaries">custom dictionaries</a> to create custom synonym…

You can now use Spanner Studio to <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/spanner/docs/graph/create-update-drop-schema-visually">visually create and manage a Spanner Graph schema</a>. Visual modeling…

The <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/spanner/docs/use-spanner-mcp">Spanner remote MCP server</a> is generally available (<a…

You can use the <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/spanner/docs/reference/mcp/databaseinsights/mcp">Database Insights remote MCP server</a> to analyze Spanner's performance and system…

Spanner supports Gemini Cloud Assist investigation capabilities. You can create, run, and edit <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/cloud-assist/investigations">Gemini Cloud Assist…

Repeatable read isolation is <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/products#product-launch-stages">generally available</a>. You can use it to reduce latency and transaction failure rates for…

Columnar engine for Spanner is now <a href="https://cloud.google.com/products/#product-launch-stages">generally available (GA)</a>. Columnar engine is a storage technique used with analytical queries…

Spanner supports importing data from Cloud SQL for MySQL. This feature lets you migrate the schema and perform a one-time bulk data load to evaluate Spanner for your use case. For more information,…

You can create BigQuery <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/materialized-views-create#spanner">non-incremental materialized views over Spanner data</a> to improve query performance…

You can use <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/export-to-spanner#export_using_a_cloud_resource_connection">Cloud resource connections with EXPORT DATA statements</a> to reverse ETL…

Spanner now offers <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/spanner/docs/reference/standard-sql/ml-functions">AI functions</a>, as a part of machine learning functions, that help you perform…

Spanner supports the optimistic concurrency control mode. Optimistic concurrency control is suitable for transactional workloads with low read-write contention. It assumes that conflicts in…

You can use <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/export-to-spanner#export_continuously">continuous queries to stream BigQuery data to Spanner in real time</a>. This feature is <a…

Spanner supports the following <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/spanner/docs/managed-autoscaler">managed autoscaler</a> features: • Autoscaling based on <a…

Spanner supports the following: • <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/spanner/docs/editions-overview#monitor-edition-feature-usage">Monitor the usage of Enterprise edition and Enterprise Plus…

Control of MCP use with organization policies is deprecated. After March 17, 2026, organization policies that use the gcp.managed.allowedMCPServices constraint won't work, and you can control MCP use…