Spanner

4 statements across 2 episodes · 1 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Feb 25, 2019 by Daniel Chia · across every show →

Everything said about Spanner, oldest first

Feb 25, 2019 positive
Assertion Contradicted
Chia: Google Spanner eliminates operational differences between and within shards
“And in Spanner, it's a little bit nicer in that every shard behaves the same, and because we have technologies like, ah, two-phase commit, We are, you don't really have any difference between operating within a shard or across shards, but it's not always true …”
Daniel Chia Feb 25, 2019 ▶ 5:06 Dynamic Range Sharding with Spanner // Daniel Chia, Google Spanner (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
Feb 25, 2019
Assertion Supported
Chia: All Spanner RPCs address specific data rather than machine names
“All RPCs in Spanner are addressed to specific pieces of data rather than the machine name.”
Daniel Chia Feb 25, 2019 ▶ 13:07 Dynamic Range Sharding with Spanner // Daniel Chia, Google Spanner (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
Nov 17, 2022
What-if
Kimball: Most database problems at Square were solvable with Spanner
“If you looked at all the problems Square was having, and they had something like 70 externally facing use cases when we joined them, most of the problems that they were struggling with could have been solved with the use of something like Spanner.”
Spencer Kimball Nov 17, 2022 ▶ 7:38 A Cloud SQL Database Built for Survival | Cockroach CEO & Co-Founder, Spencer Kimball
Nov 17, 2022
Assertion Partly supported
Kimball: Google ran over 1,000 MySQL shards for a decade before Spanner
“Google didn't replace that system with Spanner, I think for almost 10 years. So by that time it had gotten to a thousand plus shards of MySQL.”
Spencer Kimball Nov 17, 2022 ▶ 49:20 A Cloud SQL Database Built for Survival | Cockroach CEO & Co-Founder, Spencer Kimball
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