Announcing Spanner Omni: Your infrastructure, Google’s innovation

2026-04-22

6 min read

by Wenzhe Cao

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Spanner

Google Cloud Next

Databases

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Google announces Spanner Omni, a downloadable distributed SQL database for enterprises to deploy in data centers, clouds, or laptops.

•Combines NoSQL scalability with ACID compliance, strong consistency, and multi-model capabilities (SQL, graph, key-value, full-text search, vector search, analytics)
•Addresses business continuity, data sovereignty for regulated industries, and application portability for SaaS/ISV providers
•Supports VMs, containers, Kubernetes, and on-premises, multicloud, hybrid, or air-gapped deployments
•Replaces Colossus with abstraction layer for distributed storage and introduces software-based TrueTime for time synchronization

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