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Re:Spanner: Google's Globally-Distributed Database by eluos on Saturday September 15, 2012 @11:14PM (#4528124)
"non-blocking reads in the past"

Sounds like google's finally invented time travel.

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Re:Spanner: Google's Globally-Distributed Database by vital_sol on Sunday September 16, 2012 @03:04AM (#4528549)
Actually, this is exactly how transactions in Oracle work. The difference is - one db server (Oracle) vs. distributed system (Google)
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Re:Spanner: Google's Globally-Distributed Database by pdog on Sunday September 16, 2012 @03:09AM (#4528555)
Oracle doesn't have to be one DB server. Check out Oracle RAC for instance.
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