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Progress in performance and scalability with CockroachDB

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Re: Progress in performance and scalability with CockroachDB

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Someone should create a fork with work-safe name. CockroachDB brings connotation of cockroaches, who are known by eating almost everything and living almost everywhere.

In their presentation they have it abbreviated as CRDB, so that might be a viable direction without pain.

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Re: Progress in performance and scalability with CockroachDB

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I've just released a small product using CockroachDB, in retrospect it was probably my favourite technical decision. Previously I'd used it as a toy and tested deployment strats but was skeptical (new tech and all that), but now that it's ticking along in the wild I'm very impressed across the board.

Re: Progress in performance and scalability with CockroachDB

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post #12

I've just released a small product using CockroachDB, in retrospect it was probably my favourite technical decision. Previously I'd used it as a toy and tested deployment strats but was skeptical (new tech and all that), but now that it's ticking along in the wild I'm very impressed across the board.

How does your infrastructure look like? Do you deploy it in a single datacenter or even in the same rack on a couple of servers?

Re: Progress in performance and scalability with CockroachDB

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I'm totally new to cockroach so I have 2 questions.. 1. Is there a managed service of this db where it auto scales, does geo replication etc all by itself? 2. Is there any really good book on cockroachdb?

We released a managed version at the end of October, with auto-scaling, geo-replication, etc. --> https://www.cockroachlabs.com/product/managed/

Not sure that there any books on it yet.

Re: Progress in performance and scalability with CockroachDB

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I'm totally new to cockroach so I have 2 questions.. 1. Is there a managed service of this db where it auto scales, does geo replication etc all by itself? 2. Is there any really good book on cockroachdb?

We released a managed version at the end of October, with auto-scaling, geo-replication, etc. --> https://www.cockroachlabs.com/product/managed/ Not sure that there any books on it yet.

The managed service doesn't autoscale, it's provisioned capacity by cores. We just did a call about it.

Re: Progress in performance and scalability with CockroachDB

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Someone should create a fork with work-safe name. CockroachDB brings connotation of cockroaches, who are known by eating almost everything and living almost everywhere.

> known by eating almost everything and living almost everywhere

Good attributes for a DB though?

Re: Progress in performance and scalability with CockroachDB

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This is a crazy multiple! Anyone from the Cockroach team up for sharing what the key innovations were that are driving the improved performance?

I'm the author. We've introduced transactional write pipelining (covered in a forthcoming blog post), load-aware rebalancing, and completed general performance tuning which all contribute to our improved performance numbers.
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