Google Cloud Spanner Columnar Engine in Preview
Publish Date: February 27, 2026 Executive Overview The traditional architecture of the “Data Divide”—the structural wall separating high-concurrency transactional (OLTP) systems from deep analytical (OLAP) warehouses—has long been an expensive, latency-inducing necessity for the enterprise. Google Cloud’s announcement of the Spanner Columnar Engine in Public Preview marks a significant milestone in the erasure of this […]