The other week, we devoted an episode of The Cockroach Hour to talk about the dirty secret of isolation levels. When host Jim Walker was titling the webinar, I’m pretty sure he had one particular...
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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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[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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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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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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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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Cloud-native application architectures help developers deliver amazing experiences to their customers around the world. They do this by taking advantage of billions in cloud provider investments,...
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“With CockroachCloud, we don’t have to worry about scalability issues or troubleshooting performance."
Learn MoreThis 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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[THE 2020 CLOUD REPORT IS AVAILABLE. READ IT HERE] CockroachDB is a cloud-neutral database, which means it eliminates dependencies on a particular cloud environment and gives you the flexibility...
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For the past four months, I've been working with the incredible SQL Execution team at Cockroach Labs as a backend engineering intern to develop the first prototype of a batched, column-at-a-time...
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