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I wonder how you see the publishing of the Spanner paper effects your product? Does this give validity to your product seeing as there is a production system with similar features to yours already in use, or is there a risk Google might provide this system as a service to other companies possibly competing with you.

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Well, it doesn't seem like it's their ambition, but there's no doubt that if Google released all of their in-house data tools, including Spanner, that it would drastically change the market.

We love to see this stuff, though. When we started building our product over three years ago, the idea of a distributed, ACID database was sort of laughed at. (I think the CAP theorem scared a lot of people off from building really useful products.) FoundationDB isn't the same as Spanner, but they share some of the same goals. We see that as a huge validation.

Thanks for the question.

What's not their ambition?

http://cloud.google.com/products /compute-engine.html /cloud-storage.html /big-query.html /more-products.html

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