Data management
Database modernization

Solution

Database modernization

Customer stories

Learn how Bandai Namco used the global database solution Cloud Spanner to build a global game.

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Backend scales to millions of players while still performing well
Fully managed scalable database drastically reduces risk of human error and operational overhead
Bandai can improve game by analyzing players’ behaviors in near real-time

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With Firestore and Google Cloud, The New York Times reinvented their collaboration tool for field reporters and newsrooms within months.

Fintech leader Square uses Cloud Spanner and Google Kubernetes Engine to run their transaction system.

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Key benefits

Be prepared for growth with quick, seamless scaling

Google Cloud databases scale seamlessly, letting you build cloud-native applications without worrying about whether your system can handle seasonal surges and unpredictable future growth.

Help developers move faster and focus on business value

From serverless management to auto-scaling, deep integrations to enterprise functionality, Google Cloud’s database portfolio delivers features and tools that help developers and operators ship faster and perform less maintenance.

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Tips for choosing the right managed cloud database

Modernize, rebuild, or build from scratch

Whether you’re modernizing from an existing app, rebuilding an app, or building net-new, Google Cloud’s fully managed database services can help reduce your operational overhead and reduce time to value.

Modernize from Cassandra to Cloud Bigtable

If you lack in-house expertise in managing a Cassandra cluster, the move to fully managed Cloud Bigtable reduces your operational burden and read-repair work and makes scaling and replication easier. This reduces costs with pay-as-you-go pricing and seamless scaling up and down.

Use scalable relational database for variable-demand and high-growth industries

Managing sharded relational databases is difficult. Handling eventual consistency found in NoSQL databases is time consuming and error prone. Cloud Spanner is a fully managed and scalable relational database. It reduces complexity and enables seasonal and high-growth industries like retail, fintech, and gaming to scale up and down without sacrificing strong consistency and relational semantics.

Accelerate your development velocity

Whether you’re developing for the web or mobile, serverless Firestore is designed to provide a great developer experience and simplify and speed up your app development with live synchronization, offline support, and ACID transactions across hundreds of documents and collections.

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We’re constantly developing new tools and services. Here’s how to find them.

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Recommended products and services

Google Cloud’s portfolio of managed database services let you achieve the performance, scalability, and flexibility your application demands at a reasonable cost.

Cloud Spanner

Scalable relational database delivers high-performance transactions, 99.999% availability, and enterprise-grade security.

Cloud Bigtable

Scalable low-latency, high-throughput key-value and wide-column NoSQL database.

Firestore

Serverless NoSQL document database with real-time sync for mobile and web apps.

Recommended database partners

Google Cloud partners can help make your migration seamless, from assessment to validation.

Automated assessments for migrations to cloud-native GCP technologies. migVisor quickly analyzes your source databases for configuration, attributes, schema objects, and proprietary features to generate a database complexity score.

Real-time database migration services with continuous replication between on-premises sources and Google Cloud targets. Striim supports data integration to BigQuery, Cloud Spanner, Cloud SQL for MySQL, and more.

Specialists in complex database migrations from Apache Cassandra to Cloud Bigtable and from MySQL to Cloud Spanner. DoiT International consults with clients to architect, design systems, provide complexity analysis, and mobilize large-scale system design.

Complete service packages across professional services, managed services, and consulting. CloudZone works to optimize scalability, eliminate downtime, increase productivity, and deliver products to customers with exceptional quality and speed.

Customized development and technical migration support for at-scale business applications. Devoteam G Cloud supports customers through all phases of their project, from technical workshops to integration and customer service.

Migration and management software platform for data-driven decision-making and solution automation. Through Cloudamize, their migration and management software platform, Cloudreach brings simplicity to complex solutions for the public cloud.

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