TransLattice on Google’s new ‘planet-spanning’ database: We were first

September 19, 2012 1:16 PM John Koetsier
John Koetsier

Yesterday Google Research pulled the shroud off Spanner, Google's "scalable, multi-version, globally-distributed, and synchronously-replicated database," claiming to have created "the first system to distribute data at global scale and support externally-consistent distributed transactions."

12 nodes, 5 continents, 1 database: TransLattice intros world’s first geographically distributed database

July 24, 2012 5:00 AM John Koetsier
John Koetsier

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Imagine a functional, live, operational database living on separate servers scattered around the globe in say, San Francisco, London, Dubai, Moscow, and Johannesburg, simultaneously. Not synced, replicated, or cloned — but a single database without a single location.

Now …

Translattice hopes to kill off centralized databases and cut costs 60 percent

July 25, 2011 5:00 AM Dean Takahashi
Dean Takahashi

Translattice is launching a new platform for enterprise computing today that will distribute data throughout a company’s computer network and save as much as 60 percent on enterprise computing costs.

After four years of redesigning how enterprise databases store and …