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)
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Authors
- 1. David F. Bacon (Google)
- 2. Nathan Bales (Google)
- 3. Nico Bruno (Google)
- 4. Brian F. Cooper (Google)
- 5. Adam Dickinson (Google)
- 6. Andrew Fikes (Google)
- 7. Campbell Fraser (Google)
- 8. Andrey Gubarev (Google)
- 9. Milind Joshi (Google)
- 10. Eugene Kogan (Google)
- 11. Alexander Lloyd (Google)
- 12. Sergey Melnik (Google)
- 13. Rajesh Rao (Google)
- 14. David Shue (Google)
- 15. Christopher Taylor (Google)
- 16. Marcel van der Holst (Google)
- 17. Dale Woodford (Google)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{bacon_sigmod17,
title = {{Spanner: Becoming a SQL System}},
author = {Bacon, David F. and Bales, Nathan and Bruno, Nico and Cooper, Brian F. and Dickinson, Adam and Fikes, Andrew and Fraser, Campbell and Gubarev, Andrey and Joshi, Milind and Kogan, Eugene and Lloyd, Alexander and Melnik, Sergey and Rao, Rajesh and Shue, David and Taylor, Christopher and van der Holst, Marcel and Woodford, Dale},
series = {{SIGMOD} '17},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/3035918.3056103},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3035918.3056103},
year = {2017}
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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 49 | Dremel: Interactive Analysis of Web-Scale Datasets | 2010 | VLDB | 0.00043085722 |
| 139 | Megastore: Providing Scalable, Highly Available Storage for Interactive Services | 2011 | CIDR | 0.00029386971 |
| 1,576 | F1 – The Fault-Tolerant Distributed RDBMS Supporting Google's Ad Business | 2012 | SIGMOD | 0.00010156207 |
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