Its split into geographically located shards so you don't need to sync across the global keyspace which is very different from the Spanner model. You have a configurable amount of durability so you can set how much latency you want to tolerate vs how much geo-durability you want to have. If you want to have full planet durability you are going to hit a pretty bit latency penalty
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