--- 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 --- [Google Cloud](https://daily.dev/sources/gcp) [Read post](https://api.daily.dev/r/JFZ7YI7aW) # [Cloud Spanner is the database of choice for Nest Cameras](https://api.daily.dev/r/JFZ7YI7aW "Go to post") 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. [#backend](/tags/backend "Check all #backend posts")[#cloud](/tags/cloud "Check all #cloud posts")[#database](/tags/database "Check all #database posts")[#spanner](/tags/spanner "Check all #spanner posts") Dec 24, 2023•4m read time•From [cloud.google.com](https://api.daily.dev/r/JFZ7YI7aW "cloud.google.com") [](https://api.daily.dev/r/JFZ7YI7aW "Go to post") Table of contents [Database Requirements](https://api.daily.dev/r/JFZ7YI7aW "Database Requirements")[Migration Considerations](https://api.daily.dev/r/JFZ7YI7aW "Migration Considerations")[Operationalization](https://api.daily.dev/r/JFZ7YI7aW "Operationalization") 16 Impressions Comment Bookmark Copy Share your thoughtsPost [](https://daily.dev/sources/gcp) [Google Cloud](https://daily.dev/sources/gcp "https://daily.dev/sources/gcp") Google Cloud Platform provides a suite of cloud computing services for building, deploying, and mana... Read more 835 Followers • 1.4K Upvotes #### Would you recommend this post? 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