Tag: Spanner
Google Cloud Spanner Gets Change Streams
Prospective Google Cloud Spanner users who want to suck data out of the globally consistent cloud database in real time without resorting to hacking the system will get their wishes following Google Cloud’s announcemen Read more…
Behold, Google’s Time Lord
Maintaining temporal consistency across a worldwide network is a surprisingly difficult yet important task. Databases need to decide the correct order in which transactions across the world took place, a process made complicated by the amount of time it takes for satellites and data centers to receive the proper time from each other. Enter Spanner, Google’s system designed by engineers Andrew Fikes, Wilson Hsieh, Jeff Dean, and Sanjay Ghemawat which essentially standardizes time across its various satellites and data centers. Read more…