API for Assigning Timestamp

By Lu Pan in clock on

This is a follow-up post of my previous one [https://blog.the-pans.com/notes-on-the-spanner/] about Spanner. There I talked about how Spanner uses TrueTime API to achieve external consistency at global scale and hide sharding and replication from users. In this post, I want to discuss different options of assigning…

Notes on the Google Spanner Paper

By Lu Pan in spanner on

This is my notes on the paper: Spanner: Google’s Globally-Distributed Database [https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=4&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiM8NSx3p_pAhUOpp4KHRwAAoUQFjADegQIBBAB&url=https%3A%2F%2Fresearch.google.com%2Farchive%2Fspanner-osdi2012.pdf&usg=AOvVaw0jTMltcXSUju43NRB29vPi] . I will first…