Cloud Spanner - Google's mission critical and massively scale RDBMS with NoSQL features

Isn't this amazing?

A database system which blends most important relational components and highly scalable NoSQL capabilities in one system. Google call it, Cloud Spanner.

As per Google, it can scale massively to hundreds of data centers around the globe. Most importantly it can speak SQL which is the strongest database language so far.

In a nutshell, Cloud Spanner has the following features.

Data consistency
Scales horizontally across data centers
Speaks SQL
Strong consistency and availability at global scale
Massively distributed
ACID compliance
Automatic sharding and synchronous replication with low latency
Schema updates without downtime
Auto-scales up and down as needed
Simple pricing model

This proves the point that eventually both relational and non-relational databases will merge!

Cheers!