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This aricle, F1: A Distributed SQL Database That Scales by Srihari Srinivasan, is republished with permission from a blog you really should follow: Systems We Make - Curating Complex Distributed Systems.

With both the F1 and Spanner papers out its now possible to understand their interplay a bit holistically. So lets start by revisiting the key goals of both systems.

Key Goals of F1′s design
  • System must be able to scale up by adding resources
  • Ability to re-shard and rebalance data without application changes
  • ACID consistency for transactions
  • Full SQL support, support for indexes
Spanner’s objectives


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