O'Reilly: Architecting for Scale

In this O'Reilly guide written by a distributed systems expert, learn how to build apps that scale to handle unpredictable traffic with zero downtime for customers.

Building Stateful Apps with Kubernetes & CockroachDB

This guide covers how to deploy a stateful application with CockroachDB using Kubernetes StatefulSets

O'Reilly: Kubernetes Best Practices

In this O'Reilly guide, four Kubernetes pros guide you through the process of building applications with this container orchestration system.

The True Cost of a Cloud Database

A framework for evaluating the true cost of a cloud database, from hardware and software to hidden management costs and beyond.

Building High Availability Services with CockroachDB

In this guide, we'll start with an overview of different availability models, and cover every consideration you need to make to ensure maximum availability when building on top of CockroachDB.

CockroachDB: The Resilient Geo-Distributed SQL Database (SIGMOD 2020)

"CockroachDB: The Resilient Geo-Distributed SQL Database" (SIGMOD 2020) codifies five years of research. This paper presents the design of CockroachDB and its novel transaction model.

GigaOm Radar for Cloud Database Platforms

Guide to Scaling Your App with GDPR Compliance

This guide covers strategies for companies to scale their services into the EU while enabling GDPR compliance, particularly in regards to your database.

Dzone Trend Report: The Database Evolution: SQL or NoSQL in the Age of Big Data

In this Trend Report, Dzone surveyed developers and IT organizations to understand how they have adapted their SQL and NoSQL database strategies to extract the most value from their big data.

Enterprise Database Impact Report: 2019 Snapshot of Data Localization Regulations

In this report, we cover the impact of global data privacy regulations on business and the details of notable regulations across the globe.

The 2018 Cloud Report

In the 2018 Cloud Computing Report, we test the performance of GCP and AWS, comparing TPC-C performance (e.g., throughput and latency), CPU, Network, I/O, and cost.

CockroachDB & Cassandra: Which is Right for Your Workload

​CockroachDB delivers a distributed foundation for effortless scale and resilience found in Apache Cassandra but with the familiarity, ease, and power of PostgreSQL on top.

CockroachDB vs Amazon Aurora Price Comparison

Performance Report: Benchmarking CockroachDB's TPC-C Performance

This comprehensive guide demonstrates how CockroachDB achieves high OLTP performance of over 128,000 tpmC on a TPC-C dataset over 2 terabytes in size.

How Global is Amazon Aurora

Migration Guide: Migrating from Oracle to CockroachDB

Migrations are difficult. This detailed guide will make it easier to plan and execute a migration from Oracle to CockroachDB.

Building Highly Available Architectures: Oracle vs CockroachDB

In this guide, we walk through what it takes to create the infrastructure for a highly available, widely distributed service using CockroachDB versus delivery of a similar capability using Oracle.

Scaling Databases with Multi-Region Deployments

This guide covers scaling any distributed database––both high-level concerns and tactics to fast forward your progress.

Yugabyte vs CockroachDB: Unpacking Competitive Benchmark Claims

This is our analysis of CockroachDB vs. Yugabyte v2.0.0. All benchmark comparisons were done with CockroachDB v19.2.0.