Improved Approximation for the Directed Spanner Problem
Grigory Yaroslavtsev and collaborators present an improved approximation for the Directed Spanner Problem, exploring the concept of k-Spanner in directed graphs. The research delves into finding the sparsest k-spanner, preserving distances and discussing applications, including simulating synchroniz
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Google Spanner: A Distributed Multiversion Database Overview
Represented at OSDI 2012 by Wilson Hsieh, Google Spanner is a globally distributed database system that offers general-purpose transactions and SQL query support. It features lock-free distributed read transactions, ensuring external consistency of distributed transactions. Spanner enables property
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Distributed Transactions in Spanner: Insights and Mechanisms
Spanner, a strictly serializable system, leverages TrueTime for timestamping to enforce the invariant between transactions. It ensures efficient read-only transactions and multi-shard transactions. Mechanisms like 2PL, 2PC, and (Multi)Paxos contribute to Spanner's fault tolerance and scalability. Le
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Distributed Transactions and Spanner Overview
Explore concepts like serializability, partitioned data handling, achieving serializability in distributed settings, consensus per transaction group, and insights into Google's Spanner database, focusing on its globally distributed design and fault tolerance mechanisms.
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Spanner Database Overview
Spanner is a globally distributed database system that offers configurable control, consistent commit timestamps, external consistency, and TrueTime API for handling distributed data. It uses a transaction model with two-phase locking and lock-free reads, providing globally sortable timestamps. The
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Spanner: Google's Globally Distributed Database Overview
Spanner is a powerful, distributed database developed by Google to manage cross-datacenter replication efficiently. Offering general-purpose transactions and SQL query language, Spanner ensures externally consistent reads and writes, making it ideal for critical applications like Google's Ad data. W
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Harmonic Modularity for Joint Community and Structural Hole Spanner Detection
This research delves into the detection of joint community and structural hole spanners in social networks using the Harmonic Modularity model. The study proposes a metric to evaluate the quality of identified structural hole spanners and showcases the effectiveness of the model in simultaneously de
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Distributed Transactions in Spanner: Design Choices and Motivations
Explore the design choices and motivations behind Google's Spanner system, focusing on distributed transactions, strict serializability, and the tradeoff between performance and consistency in a sharded environment. Learn how Spanner simplifies application development while ensuring strong consisten
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Spanner: Google's Globally Distributed Database Overview
Explore the features and implementation of Spanner, Google's globally distributed database system, designed for scale, multi-versioning, and synchronous replication across data centers. Learn how Spanner reshards data, supports schema-rich tables, and ensures global availability.
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Spanner: Google's Globally Distributed Database Overview
Explore the features and architecture of Spanner, Google's globally distributed database, designed for managing cross-datacenter replication with general-purpose transactions and externally consistent reads and writes. Learn about its implementation structure, organization, and unique features like
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