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Re: CockroachDB 19.2

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CockroachDB seems to be getting a lot of attention and marketing cycles lately... What has made it the focus of late?

Because we blogged about our new vectorized sql engine[1] & our new parallel commit protocol[2] recently, two "big"-ish engineering lifts that were packed into this one release.

[1]: https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/how-we-built-a-vectorized...

[2]: https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/parallel-commits

Re: CockroachDB 19.2

#6
Glad to see Cockroach Cloud, I signed up for the beta.

I'm only really interested in an elastic, managed program with transparent pricing. As a contractor with a fair amount of exposure to various startups around the bay, I find these to be relatively ubiquitous criteria.

Re: CockroachDB 19.2

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CockroachDB seems to be getting a lot of attention and marketing cycles lately... What has made it the focus of late?

Marketing

Probably has to do with their decision to name it after the cockroach. I mean, if they had called it MaggotDB or BotFlyDB or TapewormDB, people might find it unappealing.

Re: CockroachDB 19.2

#9
Waiting for the comments about the name.

On a more serious note, looking forward to trying this new release out. I found previous versions really straightforward to get up and running with on Kubernetes but performance was always lacklustre.

Re: CockroachDB 19.2

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Marketing

Probably has to do with their decision to name it after the cockroach. I mean, if they had called it MaggotDB or BotFlyDB or TapewormDB, people might find it unappealing.

Those aren't nearly as resilient though. Now, if you made a version of sqlite that replicated itself inside your program then you could use botfly ...
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