Exclusive: Inside Google Spanner, the Largest Single Database on EarthMuch like the engineering team that created it, Google Spanner is something that stretches across the globe while behaving as if it's all in one place. Unveiled this fall after years of hints and rumors, it's the first worldwide database worthy of the name -- a database designed to seamlessly operate across hundreds of data centers and millions of machines and trillions of rows of information. Eac
