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Re:Spanner: Google's Globally-Distributed Database by bgentry on Saturday September 15, 2012 @07:59PM (#4527698)
I would also be interested in a longer, elaborated answer.
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Re:Spanner: Google's Globally-Distributed Database by Locke1689 on Saturday September 15, 2012 @08:04PM (#4527708)
The lessons are pretty much the same as the ones functional programming have been trying to teach us for years: immutability and caching.

Beyond that I would rather not elaborate for reasons of confidentiality.

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Re:Spanner: Google's Globally-Distributed Database by eternalban on Saturday September 15, 2012 @09:47PM (#4527973)
Value addressing. MVCC.
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Re:Spanner: Google's Globally-Distributed Database by sedachv on Saturday September 15, 2012 @10:07PM (#4528008)
What is "value addressing"? That's the first time I've seen that term and google doesn't bring anything relevant up.
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Re:Spanner: Google's Globally-Distributed Database by arnarbi on Saturday September 15, 2012 @10:39PM (#4528061)
This is a wild guess, but I guess it might be a synonym for content addressing

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content-addressable_storage#Con...

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Re:Spanner: Google's Globally-Distributed Database by eternalban on Sunday September 16, 2012 @09:41AM (#4529126)
+1. Neologism of an autodidact. IMHO it is more correct, regardless.
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