Spanner is Google Cloud’s no-compromise operational database that gives you the horizontal scale and always-on availability of a modern distributed system along with the rich feature set and familiar ecosystem of a relational database. Innovators in industries like banking, retail, media and entertainment, and AI infrastructure rely on Spanner today for their most critical workloads. We’re excited to announce a new, flexible way to handle larger, more complex transactions in Spanner, simplifying applications that need the highest levels of data consistency.