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eluos on Sept 16, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Spanner: Google's Globally-Distributed Database

"non-blocking reads in the past"

Sounds like google's finally invented time travel.

vital_sol on Sept 16, 2012 [–]

Actually, this is exactly how transactions in Oracle work. The difference is - one db server (Oracle) vs. distributed system (Google)

pdog on Sept 16, 2012 | [–]

Oracle doesn't have to be one DB server. Check out Oracle RAC for instance.

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