[Paper Suggestion] Spanner

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Paper Suggestion

• Title: Spanner: Google's Globally-Distributed Database
• Link: https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//archive/spanner-osdi2012.pdf

Content Summary

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. This paper describes how Spanner is structured, its feature set, the rationale underlying various design decisions, and a novel time API that exposes clock uncertainty. This API and its implementation are critical to supporting external consistency and a variety of powerful features: non-blocking reads in the past, lock-free read-only transactions, and atomic schema changes, across all of Spanner.

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