Datacenters as Computers: Google Engineering & Database Research Perspectives
Summary: Datacenters are presented as massive computers enabling Google to manage transactional and analytical workloads at exabyte scale, powered by cloud-enabled, fault-tolerant, low-latency data infrastructure. It also argues that such architecture reshapes data-centric design principles and highlights open research challenges to sustain growth. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
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| 890 | F1 – The Fault-Tolerant Distributed RDBMS Supporting Google's Ad Business | 2012 | SIGMOD | 0.00015570935 |
| 906 | F1: A Distributed SQL Database That Scales | 2013 | VLDB | 0.00015448884 |
| 1,286 | Photon: Fault-tolerant and Scalable Joining of Continuous Data Streams | 2013 | SIGMOD | 0.0001282373 |
| 1,814 | Mesa: Geo-Replicated, Near Real-Time, Scalable Data Warehousing | 2014 | VLDB | 0.00010458107 |
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