Chapter 9 Reference 71
Living Without Atomic Clocks: Where CockroachDB and Spanner Diverge
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Living without atomic clocks: Where CockroachDB and Spanner diverge
If someone knows even a little about Spanner, the first question they have is: "How does CockroachDB provide external consistency without atomic clocks?"
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