{"id":6602,"date":"2012-09-18T17:10:12","date_gmt":"2012-09-18T22:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=6602"},"modified":"2012-09-18T17:10:12","modified_gmt":"2012-09-18T22:10:12","slug":"a-database-that-knows-what-time-it-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=6602","title":{"rendered":"A database that knows what time it is"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Google has made public the details of its <a href=\"http:\/\/static.googleusercontent.com\/external_content\/untrusted_dlcp\/research.google.com\/en\/us\/archive\/spanner-osdi2012.pdf\">Spanner database technology<\/a>, which allows a database to store data across multiple data centers, millions of machines and trillions of rows. But it\u2019s not just larger than the average database, Spanner also allows applications that use the database to dictate where specific data is stored so as to reduce latency when retrieving it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/data\/googles-spanner-a-database-that-knows-what-time-it-is\/\">Google\u2019s Spanner: A database that knows what time it is \u2014 Data | GigaOM<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Spanner is cool as a database tool for the current era of real-time data, but it also indicates how Google is thinking about building a compute infrastructure that is designed to run amid a dynamic environment where the hardware, the software and the data itself being processed is constantly changing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has made public the details of its Spanner database technology, which allows a database to store data across multiple data centers, millions of machines and trillions of rows. But it\u2019s not just larger than the average database, Spanner also &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=6602\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[286],"tags":[41,156,361,423],"class_list":["post-6602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-storage","tag-data-centers","tag-databases","tag-distributed-computing","tag-google"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6602"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6603,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6602\/revisions\/6603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}