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The post discusses the usage of synchronized clocks in various distributed database systems. It highlights Google's Spanner using TrueTime API to ensure strong consistency and linearizability, CockroachDB's reliance on NTP-synchronized clocks and Hybrid Logical Clocks (HLCs) for handling time uncertainty, and other systems like MongoDB, DynamoDB, Accord, TiDB, and Aurora Limitless which apply different techniques to maintain consistency and perform efficient transactions through time-based mechanisms.

Use of Time in Distributed Databases (part 4): Synchronized clocks in production databases

TIDB: snapshot isolation (Timestamp Oracle)