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Spanner didn’t exist in 2012.

• jeffbee 5y ago
  Maybe, but this 2010 presentation mentions it. https://cloud.google.com/files/storage_architecture_and_challenges.pdf https://cloud.google.com/files/storage_architecture_and_chal...
  • dekhn 5y ago
    at that time, only aristocrats could use spanner.
• teraflop 5y ago
  Yes it did. Google published a paper about it in 2012, and claimed that at that point it had been in development for 5 years and in production for more than 1.
  • LaserToy 5y ago
    Mmm, I worked at google in 2012 and F1 was in active development. I’ve never heard of Spanner internally. Maybe it was in development, but it was not in use. Edit: went and read more. Looks like Spanner existed but didn’t have sql, so it wasn’t what it is today. And looks like I don’t remember things any more.
    • ithkuil 5y ago
      at least by 2013 it had some basic SQL (although much more limited subset that one usable today); if you needed more you would be using f1; IIRC I used spanner (without F1) in production around 2013