This page describes Spanner editions and its key features.
Spanner editions is a tier-based pricing model that provides different capabilities at different price points. Spanner offers the following editions to support your various business and application needs:
Standard edition: provides a comprehensive suite of established capabilities that include all of the features that are Generally Available (GA) prior to September 24, 2024 along with selected additional capabilities, such as reverse ETL from BigQuery and scheduled backups, in single-region (regional) instance configurations.
Enterprise edition: builds on the Standard edition and offers multi-model capabilities including Spanner Graph, full-text search, and Vector Search. It also offers enhanced operational simplicity and data protection using managed autoscaling and incremental backups.
Enterprise Plus edition: designed for the most demanding workloads that require 99.999% availability with multi-region instance configurations and geo-partitioning support. This tier includes all Standard edition and Enterprise edition features.
Editions features
The following table lists the features available for each edition.
What you need to do
If you haven't selected an edition for your legacy Spanner instance, it has automatically upgraded to the lowest edition that matches your usage pattern to avoid workload disruption.
In general:
- Regional instances upgraded to the Standard edition.
- Regional instances with additional configurable read-only replicas or those using Enterprise edition features upgraded to the Enterprise edition.
- Multi-region instances or those using Enterprise Plus edition features upgraded to the Enterprise Plus edition.
If you are a Spanner customer under Google Cloud commitments with discounts on legacy SKUs, no action is required on your part. You can continue to use legacy SKUs until the expiration of your contract. You also have the option to upgrade to Spanner editions. We recommend contacting your sales team to understand your existing contractual obligation and renew your contracts to include the new editions SKUs, so you can optimize your total cost of ownership and get access to new capabilities that are only offered in editions.
Monitor edition feature usage
You can monitor the usage of Enterprise edition and
Enterprise Plus edition edition features in your instance. To
do so, use the
Feature usage
(instance/edition/feature_usage) monitoring metric. The following features are
shown in this metric when you use them in your instance.
- Asymmetric autoscaling
- Columnar engine
- Full-text search
- Geo-partitioning
- Incremental backups
- KNN vector search: includes use of the KNN vector distance functions
- Managed autoscaler
- Scheduled backups
- Spanner Graph
- Tiered storage
- Vector search: includes use of the ANN vector distance functions and vector index
To view the edition feature usage metric in the Google Cloud console, follow these steps:
In the Google Cloud console, go to Monitoring:
In the navigation menu, select Metrics explorer.
In the Metric field, click the Select a metric drop-down.
In the Filter by resource or metric name field, select Cloud Spanner Instance > Instance > Feature usage, and then click