--- title: Cloud Spanner is the database of choice for Nest Cameras description: The Nest team chose Cloud Spanner as the database for powering millions of Nest cameras. They considered factors like minimal downtime, lower total cost of... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/cloud-spanner-is-the-database-of-choice-for-nest-cameras-jfz7yi7aw twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Cloud Spanner is the database of choice for Nest Cameras | daily.dev og:description: The Nest team chose Cloud Spanner as the database for powering millions of Nest cameras. They considered factors like minimal downtime, lower total cost of... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/cloud-spanner-is-the-database-of-choice-for-nest-cameras-jfz7yi7aw og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/JFZ7YI7aW.png og:image:alt: Cloud Spanner is the database of choice for Nest Cameras og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Cloud Spanner is the database of choice for Nest Cameras **[Google Cloud](https://daily.dev/sources/gcp)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary The Nest team chose Cloud Spanner as the database for powering millions of Nest cameras. They considered factors like minimal downtime, lower total cost of ownership, and better end user experience. Spanner met their scalability, performance, relational database, reliability, and language support requirements. The migration to Spanner was carefully planned, considering SQL dialect, latency spikes, and Spanner-only concepts. After Spanner was in production, they monitored usage metrics and resized instances for optimal performance. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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