• Google (Spanner) Ranks #1 for Lightweight Transactions Use Case in Gartner® Critical Capabilities Report Group Product Manager Director Product Management Our most intelligent model available yet for complex tasks on Gemini Enterprise and Vertex AI For the second consecutive year Google (Spanner) has been recognized by Gartner in theCritical Capabilities for Cloud Database Management Systems for Operational Use Casesreport, where itranked #1in the Lightweight Transactions Use Case. • In our opinion, this is a testament to its efficiency, low latency, and high-performance consistency. • It was alsoranked #2in the OLTP Transactions Use Case in the latest rankings. • We feel this shows that its “infinite” horizontal scale doesn’t come at the cost of traditional transactional performance. • To us, this back-to-back recognition underscores a theme of sustained excellence and continuous innovation for the world’s most demanding data environments Check out the fullGartner report. • A look at operational performance Looking at the Critical Capabilities Ratings, we believe Spanner’s performance is why it continues to be recognized across a variety of categories: #1 in Lightweight Transactions Use Case (second year in a row): As microservices and event-driven architectures become the norm, the ability to handle high-frequency, low-latency transactions is paramount.

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  • Google’s Cloud Spanner was named the top performer for lightweight transactions in Gartner’s Critical Capabilities report on cloud database management systems, marking its second consecutive year in the #1 spot. The report also ranked Spanner #2 for OLTP transactions, underscoring its ability to handle high‑volume, traditional workloads while maintaining global consistency. Gartner highlighted Spanner’s 5.0 score for distributed transaction support, strong AI/ML integration, and near‑perfect transactional consistency. The analysis notes that Spanner’s recent AI‑centric features-such as Spanner Graph, hybrid search, and a columnar engine-have broadened its appeal to mission‑critical, data‑intensive applications.

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