Introducing Cloud Spanner, a Global Database Service
Congratulations to the Spanner team for becoming part of the Google public cloud!<p>And for those wondering, this is why Oracle wants billions of dollars from Google for &quot;Java Copyright Infringement&quot; because the only growth market for Oracle right now is their hosted database service, and whoops Google has a better one now.<p>It will be interesting if Amazon and Microsoft choose to compete with Google on this service. If we get to the point where you have databases, compute, storage, and connectivity services from those three at equal scale, well that would be a lot of choice for the developers!