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Re: CockroachDB Interactive, D3-Powered Simulations

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Post by thesandlord »

Cieplak wrote: post #11

What kind of consistency guarantees can this database provide? Does it support some type of lock so it can be used to give real-time account balances and prevent overdrawing an account?

Strong Consistency: https://www.cockroachlabs.com/docs/stable/strong-consistency...

Re: CockroachDB Interactive, D3-Powered Simulations

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Post by danudey »

patorjk wrote: post #8
Scaevolus wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When picking clever pun names, it's important to choose words that executives won't feel silly saying. Spencer Kimball, CEO of Cockroach Labs, created the GIMP in college.

Years ago I worked on a project where a lot of the code was done in Tcl (pronounced "tickle"). Management would not say "tickle", instead they insisted on saying T-C-L. Tcl is a pretty neat language, and while I was on the project, I couldn't help but wonder how much it's name had held it back.

I call it 'T-C-L' despite being a programmer, because calling it 'tickle' just sounds stupid to me. 'Sequel' for 'SQL' similarly sounds weird so I just say 'S-Q-L'.

Maybe that's just me.

Re: CockroachDB Interactive, D3-Powered Simulations

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Post by steve918 »

Exuma wrote: post #10

I never understand what goes through some people's head when they name things............

This comes up every single time they are mentioned. Fighting an up hill battle, but they're committed sticking with the poor choice of name. Also always someone who wants to explain why it's called that like it's not obvious. Doesn't make it a good name for a product you're trying to sell people.

Re: CockroachDB Interactive, D3-Powered Simulations

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Post by manigandham »

scarmig wrote: post #3
muxator wrote: post #2

CockroachDB fares well on the distributed side of the spectrum, and thus shows all the best properties of this kind of systems: replication, resiliency, horizontal scalability, modern ops experience. This is no small feat, and - personally - I am sold on it. Yet, looking at its benchmarks (pre 2.0), and knowing how carelessly some enterprise software is written, how would I convince a pointy haired boss to leave the…

First things first, you'll want a DB that doesn't have cockroach in the name. I'm only slightly kidding.

Call it CRDB then, which is also used in dev discussions. Perhaps they should officially rebrand it to that.

Re: CockroachDB Interactive, D3-Powered Simulations

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Post by manigandham »

zapita wrote: post #9

Is CockroachDB ready for production? If so what's the largest known production deployment?

It's been production ready for a year, although v2 will add some nice functionality like JSON.

You can check their customers page: https://www.cockroachlabs.com/customers/

Re: CockroachDB Interactive, D3-Powered Simulations

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Post by zapita »

manigandham wrote: post #17
zapita wrote: post #9

Is CockroachDB ready for production? If so what's the largest known production deployment?

It's been production ready for a year, although v2 will add some nice functionality like JSON. You can check their customers page: https://www.cockroachlabs.com/customers/

Nice, thank you.
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