Spanner

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 <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 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…

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

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…

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…