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Feb 6, 2025 · Databases

How Google Cloud Spanner Achieves Global Scale with Paxos and TrueTime

This article explains how Google Cloud Spanner combines relational database features with NoSQL scalability, using multi‑version storage, TrueTime, Paxos consensus, and dynamic sharding to deliver a globally distributed, strongly consistent, high‑availability database solution.