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Best Solutions for Distributed SQL

Expert analysis of the best distributed SQL database solutions, comparing CockroachDB, YugabyteDB, Google Spanner, PlanetScale, and TiDB for globally distributed applications.

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Google Cloud Spanner is the gold standard for globally distributed SQL, offering external consistency, 99.999% availability, and horizontal scaling. CockroachDB is the leading open-source alternative with strong PostgreSQL compatibility. YugabyteDB supports both PostgreSQL and Cassandra APIs for polyglot distributed environments.
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