Google's Spanner Omni goes GA with 2M+ downloads, bringing distributed SQL to any cloud or laptop
rakyll · x · 2026-10-01
Google Cloud announced general availability of Spanner Omni, the deploy-anywhere version of its distributed multi-model database. It runs on-premises, across clouds, or locally on a laptop, combining SQL, graph, key-value, full-text, vector search and a columnar engine in one database aimed at agentic AI workloads. Over 2 million downloads since its debut at Google Cloud Next '26.
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