Wednesday, December 04, 2013

Spanner - Google's Distributed Database

Spanner - Google's Distributed Database: @ InfoQ
"Spanner relies on GPS and atomic clocks to provide two of its most innovative features: Lock-free strong (current) reads and global snapshots that are consistent with external events."

Spanner (database) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Google Research Publication: Spanner

no async, to avoid complexity.
evolution of Big Table
ACID

Interesting concept of paxos and requirement for monotonic time



Map-Reduce concept was revealed in a similar paper by Google engineers,
and soon after Hadoop was created, and whole BigData (and NoSQL) movement...
Are the time-sync concepts also ready to become open-source tool / feature?

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