"A Spanner deployment is called a Universe"
-----Original Message----- From: Robert Colquhoun <robert.colquh...@gmail.com> To: U2 Users List <u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org> Sent: Tue, Oct 2, 2012 9:13 pm Subject: Re: [U2] [u2] Parallel processing in Universe On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 5:58 PM, Symeon Breen <syme...@gmail.com> wrote: > However map reduce and hadoop are pretty horrible things. Even Google have > moved away from it with Caffiene etc. > Going OT a little, i think Google is replacing "BigTable" which was part of Caffeine in 2010 with "Spanner" now. Here is a doc about it released last month: http://static.googleusercontent.com/external_content/untrusted_dlcp/research.google.com/en//archive/spanner-osdi2012.pdf ...amusingly they call it a "Multi-Version Database", can't wait till that gets abbreviated. - Robert _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
