&quot;enabling TAPIR to provide the same transaction model and consistency guarantees as existing systems, like Spanner, with better latency and throughput.&quot;<p>Oh, hell yeah! Now that&#x27;s great stuff. Can&#x27;t wait to see the next step done by this or another team: building an alternative to the F1 RDBMS that Google built on Spanner. Would give CochroachDB some competition.