The new consensus algorithm families as exemplified by Google’s Spanner and FaunaDB, my employer, very much make the relational model relevant to distributed sy

The new consensus algorithm families as exemplified by Google’s Spanner and FaunaDB, my employer, very much make the relational model relevant to distributed systems. The important achievement is support for global ACID transactions with performance acceptable for interactive applications. A comparison of the algorithms can be found here: https://fauna.com/blog/distributed-consistency-at-scale-spanner-vs-calvin https://fauna.com/blog/distributed-consistency-at-scale-span...