Spanner wins the 2025 ACM SIGMOD Systems Award

Earlier this year, the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Management of Data (ACM SIGMOD) announced that Spanner, Google's globally distributed database, was awarded the 2025 SIGMOD Systems Award. The SIGMOD Systems Award specifically honors systems whose technical contributions have profoundly impacted the theory or practice of large-scale data management. On behalf of the entire Spanner team, especially the engineers who were there at the beginning of Spanner's journey, it is with deep humility and immense pride that we receive this recognition from such a distinguished community. We’re thrilled to be participating in the 2025 SIGMOD conference from June 22-27 in Berlin, Germany as a Platinum sponsor.

This honor feels particularly significant following Spanner's 2022 SIGOPS Hall of Fame Award, which highlighted the crucial role of technologies like TrueTime and our network infrastructure, reaffirming the lasting significance of the original vision laid out ...