Spanner: Google's Globally-Distributed Database (2012)
Paper: Spanner: Google’s Globally-Distributed Database, Corbett et al., OSDI 2012. Canonical URL: research.google/pubs/pub39966 Every week we spotlight a foundational paper that still shapes how systems are built. This week — as the digest surfaces new BFT consensus (Cadence) and NVM storage (FlintKV) work — we rotate to databases and revisit the paper that arguably did the most to reset the industry’s assumptions about what a distributed OLTP system can offer: Spanner....