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I think they're trying to create open source Spanner. Here is Google scientific paper about Spanner. http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.c

• boomzilla 12y ago
  In my opinion, one of the most profound ideas in Spanner is the introduction of TrueTime API and the guarantee provided in the implementation. I wonder if this project is going to have something similar?
  • yid 12y ago
    From the description, it sounds like they're not at the moment. Instead, they seem to be aiming for the globally replicated, consistent, SQL-supporting features. Nothing wrong with that -- the world could use more geographically-aware database implementations. Seems like they'd be able to make use of the time sync for more efficient replication/failover/transactions in the future when the hardware is more widely available.