In this article titled "F1: A Distributed SQL Database That Scales," Jeff Shute, Radek, Vingralek, Bart Samwel, and Ben Handy write about a distributed SQL database that scales. As per the researcher, F1 databases are built using spanners, which perform synchronous cross replication and ensure better consistency (Shute et al, 2013). With the help of a hierarchical schema model, synchronous replication can be resolved with a reduction in commit latency.