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A multinational financial services company is redesigning its core transaction processing backend on Google Cloud. The architecture must accommodate rapid international expansion and satisfy the following technical requirements:
Which Google Cloud database service should the architect select to meet these requirements?
Cloud Spanner is Google Cloud's fully managed, mission-critical, enterprise-grade relational database service. It uniquely combines the benefits of traditional relational database structure—such as ACID transactions, relational schemas, and SQL support—with the horizontal scalability and high availability typically found only in non-relational distributed databases.
Compared to single-master relational engines like Cloud SQL or AlloyDB, which rely on vertical compute scaling and asynchronous read replicas, Cloud Spanner is the only Google Cloud relational engine architected to scale write workloads horizontally across multiple global regions while maintaining strict transactional consistency.
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