Spanner Omni Reaches GA, Replacing Google’s Atomic Clocks and File System with Software

October 7, 2026 · 4:43 am 1 sources

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• Spanner Omni Reaches GA, Replacing Google's Atomic Clocks and File System with Software
  InfoQ · October 7, 2026 04:43
  Google has made Spanner Omni generally available, running its distributed SQL database on-premises, across clouds or on a laptop. Doing so meant replacing Colossus with a Colossus-like abstraction layer and TrueTime with software-based time synchronization. There is no availability SLA, and…