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What do you mean by “forms”? Spanner is also layered. The bottom layer is basically a key-value store. On top of that there’s a full blown SQL layer, which, BTW
by throwaway84742 8y ago
What do you mean by “forms”? Spanner is also layered. The bottom layer is basically a key-value store. On top of that there’s a full blown SQL layer, which, BTW can work with hierarchical records as well as flat tables. Both support transactions and guarantee global consistency.
- wll 8y agoThey may refer to FoundationDB layers. [1] While Spanner may be built on a key-value store equivalent, Google does not expose it as a service. [1] https://apple.github.io/foundationdb/layer-concept.html https://apple.github.io/foundationdb/layer-concept.html
- eropple 8y agoThat's exactly what I was referring to. Thanks.