For lack of better grouping, here are the interesting papers from google to read. - [ ] [Spanner](http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//archive/spanner-osdi2012.pdf) - [ ] [Chubby](https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//archive/chubby-osdi06.pdf) - [ ] [Dapper](https://storage.googleapis.com/pub-tools-public-publication-data/pdf/36356.pdf) - [ ] [BigTable](http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//archive/bigtable-osdi06.pdf)