This page describes Spanner editions and its key features.

Spanner editions is a tier-based pricing model that provides differentcapabilities at different price points. Spanner offers thefollowing editions to support your various business andapplication needs:

• Standard edition: provides a comprehensive suite of establishedcapabilities that include all of the features that are Generally Available(GA) prior to September 24, 2024 along with selected additionalcapabilities, such as reverse ETL from BigQuery and scheduledbackups, in single-region (regional) instance configurations.

• Enterprise edition: builds on the Standard edition andoffers multi-model capabilities including Spanner Graph, full-textsearch, and Vector Search. It also offers enhanced operationalsimplicity and data protection using managed autoscaling and incrementalbackups.

• Enterprise Plus edition: designed for the most demandingworkloads that require 99.999% availability with multi-region instanceconfigurations and geo-partitioning support. This tier includes allStandard edition and Enterprise edition features.

Editions features

The following table lists the features available for each edition.

What you need to do

If you haven't selected an edition for your legacy Spannerinstance, it has automatically upgraded to the lowest edition that matches yourusage pattern to avoid workload disruption.

In general:

• Regional instances upgraded to the Standard edition.
• Regional instances with additional configurable read-only replicas orthose using Enterprise edition features upgraded to theEnterprise edition.
• Multi-region instances or those using Enterprise Plus editionfeatures upgraded to the Enterprise Plus edition.

If you are a Spanner customer under Google Cloud commitmentswith discounts on legacy SKUs,no action is required on your part. You cancontinue to use legacy SKUs until the expiration of your contract. You also havethe option to upgrade to Spanner editions. We recommend contacting yoursales team to understand your existing contractual obligation and renew yourcontracts to include the new editions SKUs, so you canoptimize your total cost of ownership and get access to new capabilities thatare only offered in editions.

Pricing

For information about Spanner editions pricing, seeSpanner pricing.

Frequently asked questions

What are the changes if I'm using a Spanner free trial instance?

If you're using a free trial instance, it will default to theEnterprise edition when youupgrade it to a paid instance.Once in Enterprise edition, you can upgrade the instance to theEnterprise Plus edition, or contact support to downgrade to theStandard edition.

Can I upgrade my instance?

Yes, you canupgrade your instanceto the Enterprise edition or Enterprise Plus edition.There is no data migration involved when you change the edition of yourinstance. The edition upgrade takes approximately 10 minutes to completewith zero downtime.

Can I downgrade my instance?

Yes, you candowngrade your instanceto a lower-tier edition. You must stop using the higher-tier editionfeatures in order to downgrade. There is no data migration involved when youchange the edition of your instance. The edition downgrade takesapproximately 10 minutes to complete with zero downtime.

Will granular instances continue to be supported with editions?

Yes, granular instances is supported in all Spanner editions. Theminimum compute capacity you can set is 100 processing units or one node(1000 processing units).

Will my instance undergo data migration when it upgrades to editions?

No, your instance doesn't undergo data migration when it upgrades toeditions. This is a configuration change.

How do I stop using Enterprise edition orEnterprise Plus edition features in order to downgrade my instance'sedition?

• Enterprise edition and Enterprise Plus edition features:

  • Custom read-only replicas:Move your instanceto a regional instance configuration ordelete your instance.
  • Spanner Graph:Delete all property graph schemasin your instance.
  • Full-text search:Delete all search indexesin your instance.
  • Vector search: Stop using allKNNandANN distancefunctions, anddelete all vector indexesin your instance.
  • Managed autoscaler: Change your instance from using the managed autoscalertouse manual scaling.

• Enterprise Plus edition only features:

  • Dual-region and multi-region instance configurations:Move your instanceto a regional instance configuration ordelete your instance.
  • Geo-partitioning:Delete all partitionsin your instance.

What's next

• Learn how tocreate and manage your instances.