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Google spanner is a DB that uses atomic clocks distributed world wide. They seem to think the pain involved dealing with partial ordering is not worth the hassl
by tlarkworthy 12y ago
Google spanner is a DB that uses atomic clocks distributed world wide. They seem to think the pain involved dealing with partial ordering is not worth the hassle given there genuinely is a total ordering on operations.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanner_(database) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanner_(database)
- dllthomas 12y ago"given there genuinely is a total ordering on operations." I thought relativity says there genuinely isn't (but it's close enough we can fudge it...)
- tlarkworthy 12y agoha! I think its ok as long as all parties involved are travelling on the earth and not around it near the speed of light http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativity_of_simultaneity http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativity_of_simultaneity
- dllthomas 12y agoRight. Like I said, we can (presently) fudge it. When we get moving faster that ceases to be the case.