Google Cloud released its database news roundup for August 2024, highlighting key updates and announcements from Google Cloud Next in Tokyo. A major announcement was the introduction of Spanner Graph, a groundbreaking offering that brings graph database capabilities to Spanner. Other new features in Spanner include full-text search, Approximate Nearest Neighbor (ANN) vector search, and Spanner editions. Bigtable also received significant updates, including support for GoogleSQL, the Bigtable Studio query editor in preview, and aggregates.
For Cloud SQL, Cloud SQL for SQL Server Enterprise Plus edition is now generally available. It comes with new machine families, advanced DR capabilities, and 99.99% availability.
The roundup also highlighted customer success stories from companies like Bayer, Lightricks, Endear, Maxxton, and Deckmatch, which have leveraged Google Cloud database solutions to achieve transformative results.
In terms of additional product updates, Google Cloud announced support for LangChain on Vertex AI for AlloyDB and Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL. AlloyDB received several updates, including a new e-book, trial clusters, Gemini assistance in Databases in preview, and query federation between BigQuery and AlloyDB in preview.
Cloud SQL now offers Cloud SQL Studio in GA, as well as IAM Group authentication for Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL and Cloud SQL for MySQL.
Other notable updates include the general availability of a single-zone cluster for Memorystore for Redis Cluster, a new strategic cloud partnership between Google Cloud and Oracle, support for Geo-partitioning in public preview for Spanner, and dual-region instance configurations in Australia, Germany, India, and Japan for Spanner.
DMS now fully supports Percona Xtrabackups, while Datastream now supports SQL Server as a source in GA.
Overall, the Google Cloud database news roundup for August 2024 provides a comprehensive overview of updates and enhancements across their database portfolio, providing customers with enhanced solutions and capabilities.
