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Spanner paper: https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//archive/spanner-osdi2012.pdf https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/resea

Spanner paper: https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//archive/spanner-osdi2012.pdf https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.c... It is designed from the ground-up to be globally distributed. Some other databases like FoundationDB (now owned and killed? by Apple) and CockroachDB were designed to scale across multiple datacenters. Correction: FoundationDB is alive as open-source again, yay!

svieira 5y ago
FoundationDB was re-released as open source a couple of years ago. https://www.foundationdb.org/ https://www.foundationdb.org/
imoverclocked 5y ago
AFAIK, FoundationDB is alive and well. What makes you think it's killed?
- capableweb 5y ago
  It was acquired by a huge company that sometimes kills products. Shortly after the acquisition, the downloads were removed from the website. It did go open source "recently" though which made it longer lasting, but I'd understand if someone would think it was dead by now. - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9259986 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9259986 - Apple Acquires FoundationDB - March 24, 2015 - Comparison between March 25 and March 14, 2015 - https://web.archive.org/web/20150314231702/https://foundationdb.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/20150314231702/https://foundatio... (14th March) > https://web.archive.org/web/20150325003252/https://foundationdb.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/20150325003252/https://foundatio... (25th March)