Cloud Spanner is a database designed to scale. This is a better option than [[Cloud SQL]] for large production apps with many users (but may be a good choice for some smaller apps as well). Cloud Spanner brings together relational, graph, and key-value databases. It automatically distributes data across regions for redundancy and low latency.  The interface for Spanner is actually a bit easier to create database schemas, add tables, and add records as there is a GUI available for all of these actions, to view the data, and to query the database.