aid: google-cloud-spanner
name: Google Cloud Spanner
description: >-
  Google Cloud Spanner is a fully managed, mission-critical relational database
  service that offers transactional consistency at global scale, automatic
  synchronous replication, and schemas with SQL support. It combines the benefits
  of relational database structure with non-relational horizontal scale, providing
  up to 99.999% availability.
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url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/google-cloud-spanner/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-03-13'
modified: '2026-04-28'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
type: Index
tags:
  - Database
  - Distributed
  - Google Cloud
  - Relational
  - SQL
apis:
  - name: Cloud Spanner API
    description: >-
      The Cloud Spanner API provides programmatic access to manage Cloud Spanner
      instances, databases, and sessions. It supports creating and configuring
      globally distributed database infrastructure, executing SQL queries and DML
      statements, managing transactions with strong consistency guarantees, and
      handling database backups and restore operations.
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    humanURL: https://cloud.google.com/spanner/docs
    baseURL: https://spanner.googleapis.com/v1
    tags:
      - Database
      - Instances
      - SQL
      - Transactions
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://cloud.google.com/spanner/docs/reference/rest
      - type: OpenAPI
        url: openapi/cloud-spanner-openapi.yml
      - type: Authentication
        url: https://cloud.google.com/spanner/docs/authentication
      - type: Getting Started
        url: https://cloud.google.com/spanner/docs/getting-started/rest
      - type: JSONSchema
        url: json-schema/instance-schema.json
common:
  - type: Portal
    url: https://cloud.google.com/spanner
  - type: Getting Started
    url: https://cloud.google.com/spanner/docs/getting-started/rest
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://cloud.google.com/spanner/docs
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://cloud.google.com/spanner/docs/authentication
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://cloud.google.com/spanner/pricing
  - type: Terms of Service
    url: https://cloud.google.com/terms
  - type: Privacy Policy
    url: https://policies.google.com/privacy
  - type: Status
    url: https://status.cloud.google.com/
  - type: Support
    url: https://cloud.google.com/spanner/docs/support
  - type: JSON-LD
    url: json-ld/google-cloud-spanner-context.jsonld
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com