Faster Bulk-Data Loading in CockroachDB
Last year the BulkIO team at Cockroach Labs replaced the implementation of our IMPORT bulk-loading feature with a simpler and faster data ingestion pipeline. In most of our tests, it looked like a...
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[ep 8] Geo-distribution, Data Residency, App Performance & Compliance | The Cockroach Hour
In this video we discuss some important concepts in distributed systems including, Geo-distributed Data, Data Residency, App Performance & Compliance. Whether data is distributed across a single regio
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Database Consistency Models and Isolation Levels
The dirty secret of databases is most developers don’t pay attention to isolation levels. In this post, we’ll explore what common database isolation levels mean, and why you should care.
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The 2020 Cloud Report
The 2020 Cloud Report compiles results from over 1,000 microbenchmarks tests across AWS, Azure, and GCP to help you evaluate each provider. Here’s what we learned.
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CockroachDB Passes TPC-C at 100k Warehouses
[For CockroachDB's most up-to-date performance benchmarks, please read our Performance Overview page] Last fall we wrote about how CockroachDB was 50x more scalable than Amazon Aurora as evidenced...
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How to get optimal performance from AWS, Azure, and Google
In this video, you'll learn tips for how you can get optimal performance from AWS, Azure, and Google. Earlier this year, we published the 2020 Cloud Report and as expected, the AWS, Azure, and GCP te
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Join Ordering Part II: The ‘SQL’
Even in the 80’s, before Facebook knew everything there was to know about us, we as an industry had vast reams of data we needed to be able to answer questions about. To deal with this, data...
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“With CockroachCloud, we don’t have to worry about scalability issues or troubleshooting performance."
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AWS, Azure, & GCP Respond to the 2020 Cloud Report
In December 2019, we published the 2020 Cloud Report and an accompanying blog post, which summarized original research we conducted benchmarking the performance of Amazon Web Services (AWS),...
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DASH: Four Properties of Kubernetes-Native Databases
In this post, we introduce the DASH Framework to help you answer the question: what makes a database Kubernetes-native?
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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.
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GCP Comes Out Swinging Against AWS and Azure in 2020 Cloud Report
Since 2017, Cockroach Labs has run thousands of benchmark tests across dozens of machine types with the goal of better understanding performance across cloud providers. If there’s one thing we’ve...
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Choosing Index Keys for CockroachDB
In any database, choosing which fields of a table to index is one of the most important jobs of the database designer. This is especially true for a distributed database like CockroachDB, where...
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4 Challenges When Migrating to a Cloud-Native RDBMS
As organizations migrate to the cloud, they need a cloud-native, relational database to help them move all their applications to this new environment. Over the last ten years, the infrastructure...
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Automatic Table Statistics in CockroachDB
Last year, we rebuilt our cost-based optimizer from scratch for CockroachDB’s 2.1 release. We’ve been continuing to improve the optimizer since then, and we’ve added a number of new features for...
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How to Improve Performance using Geo-Partitioning
One of the most exciting features of distributed SQL is the ability to tie data to a specific location and CockroachDB delivers this capability via our geo-partitioning feature. If you aren’t...
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What is Distributed SQL? An Evolution of the Database
As organizations transition to the cloud, they eventually find that the legacy relational databases that are behind some of their most critical applications simply do not take advantage of the...
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Why are my Go executable files so large?
This blog post was originally published on the author's personal blog. Overview I built some tooling to extract details about the contents of a Go executable file, and a small D3 application to...
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Why do outages still happen in 2019?
Disasters happen. (Most) outages shouldn’t. When multi-billion dollar companies like Wells Fargo, Delta, and Facebook experience outages, the reaction from users tends to be anger and surprise....
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Why we’re switching to calendar versioning
One small step for Cockroach Labs, one giant leap for our release numbering. Since our initial launch, Cockroach Labs has used semantic versioning in our release cycle guidelines. Two years, one...
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Introducing the High Availability Architecture Guide (CockroachDB vs. Oracle)
Which is worse...? One of your users goes to check her bank balance in your app, and the service is down, or, One of your users goes to check her bank balance in your app and there's a data...
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