* [Spanner](http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//archive/spanner-osdi2012.pdf) (2012): Spanner is "a scalable, multi-version, globally distributed, and synchronously replicated database". The linchpin that allows all this functionality is the TrueTime API which lets Spanner order events between nodes without having them communicate. [There is some speculation that the TrueTime API is very similar to a vector clock but each node has to store less data](http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~demirbas/publications/augmentedTime.pdf). Sadly, a paper on TrueTime is promised, but hasn't yet been released.
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