A Data Center Analyst View of Spanner: Google’s Globally-Distributed Database
GigaOm's Stacey Higginbotham posted on Spanner: Google’s Globally-Distributed Database. Google’s Spanner: A database that knows what time it isBY Stacey Higginbotham Google, which is notoriously secretive about technology advances, has opened up the vault and spit out a research paper on its Spanner database. And like other Google innovations, this one is hot. It’s a database that scales to millions of machines and trillions of rows. The Research Publication is published here. Abstract Spanner is Google's scalable, multi-version, globally-distributed, and synchronously-replicated database. It is the first system to distribute data at global scale and support externally-consistent distributed transactions.
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