Spanner: Becoming a SQL System

Summary: Spanner evolves from a systems OSDI paper to a SQL-enabled distributed DB. It enables resharding-aware query execution, transient-failure restarts, range-extraction for routing/index seeks, blockwise-columnar storage, and migration to a Google SQL dialect. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 5352
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2017
Pagerank: 0.00014663067
Overall Rank: 1,008 | 93.00%
DOI: 10.1145/3035918.3056103

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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 31 of 31 citing papers.

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363	CockroachDB: The Resilient Geo-Distributed SQL Database	2020	SIGMOD	0.00025750338
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1,989	Amazon Aurora: On Avoiding Distributed Consensus for I/Os, Commits, and Membership Changes	2018	SIGMOD	9.8499087e-05
2,060	Dremel: A Decade of Interactive SQL Analysis at Web Scale	2020	VLDB	9.6585115e-05
2,922	RaSQL: Greater Power and Performance for Big Data Analytics with Recursive-aggregate-SQL on Spark	2019	SIGMOD	7.897179e-05
3,344	F1 Query: Declarative Querying at Scale	2018	VLDB	7.1944106e-05
3,641	OceanBase: A 707 Million tpmC Distributed Relational Database System	2022	VLDB	6.8877808e-05
3,750	DIAMetrics: Benchmarking Query Engines at Scale	2020	VLDB	6.7864305e-05
3,764	F1 Lightning: HTAP as a Service	2020	VLDB	6.7762323e-05
4,594	Causal Consistency and Latency Optimality: Friend or Foe?	2018	VLDB	6.055261e-05
5,011	SQL Has Problems. We Can Fix Them: Pipe Syntax In SQL	2024	VLDB	5.7544221e-05
5,649	Optimizing Data-intensive Systems in Disaggregated Data Centers with TELEPORT	2022	SIGMOD	5.3897976e-05
6,397	BigLake: BigQuery’s Evolution toward a Multi-Cloud Lakehouse	2024	SIGMOD	5.0749432e-05
6,661	Scalable Querying of Nested Data	2021	VLDB	4.9663934e-05
7,063	CompuCache: Remote Computable Caching using Spot VMs	2022	CIDR	4.8397918e-05
7,291	Multi-Tenant Cloud Data Services: State-of-the-Art, Challenges and Opportunities	2022	SIGMOD	4.7677422e-05
7,574	FoundationDB Record Layer: A Multi-Tenant Structured Datastore	2019	SIGMOD	4.7033825e-05
8,579	Towards Query Optimizer as a Service (QOaaS) in a Unified LakeHouse Ecosystem: Can One QO Rule Them All?	2025	CIDR	4.4877266e-05
9,069	Structural Designs Meet Optimality: Exploring Optimized LSM-tree Structures in A Colossal Configuration Space	2024	SIGMOD	4.3983078e-05
9,335	Parallel Query Processing: To Separate Communication from Computation	2022	SIGMOD	4.351469e-05
9,957	OceanBase Paetica: A Hybrid Shared-nothing/Shared-everything Database for Supporting Single Machine and Distributed Cluster	2023	VLDB	4.2323889e-05
9,968	Semantic Data Modeling, Graph Query, and SQL, Together at Last?	2026	CIDR	4.1905499e-05
10,173	Hyra: Scalable Byzantine-Resilient State Storage Engine with Hierarchical Erasure-Coding	2026	SIGMOD	4.1905499e-05
10,346	Linear Elastic Caching via Ski Rental	2025	CIDR	4.1905499e-05
10,703	HAWK: A Workload-driven Hierarchical Deadlock Detection Approach in Distributed Database System	2025	VLDB	4.1905499e-05
10,743	TreeCat: Standalone Catalog Engine for Large Data Systems	2025	VLDB	4.1905499e-05
10,898	Scalable OLTP in the Cloud: What’s the BIG DEAL? The Database AND the Application Have a BIG DEAL: Their Isolation Semantics	2024	CIDR	4.1905499e-05
11,095	Native Distributed Databases: Problems, Challenges and Opportunities	2024	VLDB	4.1905499e-05
11,453	Efficiently Supporting Adaptive Multi-Level Serializability Models in Distributed Database Systems	2021	SIGMOD	4.1905499e-05
11,677	Block as a Value for SQL over NoSQL	2019	VLDB	4.1905499e-05
11,694	Performance in the Spotlight	2019	VLDB	4.1905499e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
109	Dremel: Interactive Analysis of Web-Scale Datasets	2010	VLDB	0.00048217028
189	Megastore: Providing Scalable, Highly Available Storage for Interactive Services	2011	CIDR	0.00035934191
884	F1 – The Fault-Tolerant Distributed RDBMS Supporting Google's Ad Business	2012	SIGMOD	0.00015579837

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