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The distributed SQL database for the planet’s most demanding enterprise applications 🪳 🎓 🎧

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We ran CockroachDB through @aphyr 's Jepsen tools. Read all about it here: #thisiscrazy
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✨ Officially the first database company to walk the Met Gala 🪳
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A cockroach slays on the Met Gala red carpet
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We couldn't find an atomic commit protocol that worked for fast (and ACID compliant) distributed transactions, so we built our own. It's called Parallel Commits, and it halves the latency of all distributed transactions. Read more about it on the blog:
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@kelseyhightower Great idea @kelseyhightower . We’ll get right on that.
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🥳 We're thrilled to announce the release of CockroachDB 22.1 today! We thought it would be cool to hear about the features from the people who actually built them...from TTL, to CLI, to the Cloud API and much more...this is a chunky release.
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CockroachDB provides ACID transactions across a distributed database. How's it work? Read on
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Introducing CockroachDB 1.0 - the #ProductionReady , cloud-native, distributed SQL database. Learn more:
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Watch a demo of a CockroachDB cluster moving from #digitalocean to #gce and back again with zero downtime:
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😬 You see this sign on 25th street in NYC...what is your first thought?
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CockroachDB 2.0 is here! With JSON, geo-partitioning, & huge performance improvements, v2.0 enables a company’s data layer to evolve with the business -- whether you are in a single datacenter or expanding across an ocean. Read all about it:
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"It’s not designed to be completely customizable, and we hope to remove options over time. Use it and stop thinking about how to format SQL." Introducing sqlfmt (sequel fumpt): the opinionated online SQL formatter developed by @mjibson and @kena42 .
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We ran CockroachDB Beta through Aphyr's Jepsen tests. How'd we do? Read on:
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🎉 Announcing CockroachDB 20.2 🎉 🚀 Support for Spatial Data 🚀 Kubernetes Operator 🚀 Backup & Restore moved to open source 🚀 TPC-C Benchmark Performance: 40% improvement 🚀 And plenty more: #CockroachDB #DistributedSQL
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@narayanarjun @memsql As shackled database enthusiasts, the Roach applauds your response.
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🎀 ✂️ Introducing...Twitch Runs CockroachDB: An interactive SQL playground 🥊 🥋 It's a @Twitch chat REPL for CockroachCloud. You can use it to learn SQL or to try and break #CockroachDB : @andy_pavlo @b0rk @pbailis @joe_hellerstein @AndrewYNg
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We're back though....because: 🪳
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Since we're unable to make changes to @golang 's CPU (goroutine) scheduler, we intercept CPU bound work with multiple queues in the following diagram: KV-Storage CPU, Response from KV, Response from DistSQL. cc: @golangweekly @golang_news @golangch
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With our 19.2 release, CockroachDB implements a new way of avoiding the dreaded "split brain" scenario in Raft: Joint Consensus. Read more about the algorithm's roots, its implications for etcd/raft, and our commitment to consensus in today's blog:
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🤔 Curious why we chose @golang ? And how we deal with Garbage Collection? Watch this keynote by our CTO, Ben Darnell to learn how we built a massive application using Go: @golang_news @golangweekly #GoLang #Programming #GarbageCollection #Rust #Java
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👋 Meet CockroachDB’s new storage engine: Pebble. It’s an open-source KV store inspired by @RocksDB , written in @golang . More on our decision to replace #RocksDB & how we built Pebble in today's blog by CTO and co-founder @petermattis ✏️ #CockroachDB
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🏆 brb taking our "Best use of CockroachDB" trophies to @HackTheNorth this weekend
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I had a legacy database joke but it didn’t scale
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🎉 Introducing: CockroachDB Serverless The massively scalable SQL database for developers ✌️ Thank you to all the early serverless database users from our community! You created thousands of cloud db's & provided invaluable feedback. We appreciate you!
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We're proud to participate in @DigitalOcean ’s #Hacktoberfest & we've already seen meaningful contributions to our Docs. If you don't know how Hackertoberfest works but you'd like to participate check out this blog: #Programming #100DaysofCode #opensource
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"k8s is not the missing piece. You can't just add it & expect everything to work out. There are eng decisions that you need to get right outside of k8s. If you get some of those decisions right, k8s can help enforce them." - @kelseyhightower , @thenewstack ,
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We’re in Valencia!
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Applying consensus algorithms to real-world applications is no simple task. @tschottdorf digs in on our blog:
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Dear Startup Founder, 🤯 If you don't want to deal with the headaches of having to scale out Postgres or MySQL clusters then give us a gander. CockroachDB scales effortlessly & we have a DBaaS so you can focus on the app & your users 🤳 Your resilient admirer, Cockroach Labs
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Time-travel queries: promised in the #SQL Standard 2011; delivered in CockroachDB Beta 2016
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We ran CockroachDB Beta through Aphyr's Jepsen tests. How'd we do? Read on:
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It's a big day for us: @aphyr 's first Jepsen analysis on CockroachDB!
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We took a close look at how the Go scheduler can affect latencies, and then tried taming it by using control theory and patching the runtime. 💻 Read on: @golang @golang_news @golangweekly
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Since we're unable to make changes to @golang 's CPU (goroutine) scheduler, we intercept CPU bound work with multiple queues in the following diagram: KV-Storage CPU, Response from KV, Response from DistSQL. cc: @golangweekly @golang_news @golangch
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🎉 🎉 🎉 We are proud to announce the launch of 𝘾𝙤𝙘𝙠𝙧𝙤𝙖𝙘𝙝𝘾𝙡𝙤𝙪𝙙 - our #DBaaS offering. It delivers the capabilities of CockroachDB in a self-service format & is completely hosted/managed by Cockroach Labs. Sign Up for the Beta Program:
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As we were testing features for our 2.1 release, we noticed AWS provided 40% greater throughput than GCP. This inspired our 2018 Cloud Report, which benchmarks the two platforms on CPU, network, I/O, TPC-C performance (e.g., throughput and latency), & $$.
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✨ CockroachDB's interactive SQL shell just got a face lift. 🧋Here's a quick look at how we partnered with @charmcli to create an even better experience 🫧
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🚀 We're excited to announce that Cockroach Labs has been named to this year’s @Forbes Next Billion-Dollar Startups list! Congratulations to our #Roachers for building a truly transformative business and to all the other featured companies! #CockroachDB
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🤼‍♂️Competition pushes us to be better -- we welcome it. And it hasn’t escaped our notice that a new entrant in the DB landscape frequently compares themselves to us. So we decided to unpack some of these competitive benchmark claims: #distributedSQL
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☁️ Scaling 101 ☁️ ↕️ Vertical scaling (Scaling up): Increasing capacity by adding capability ↔️ Horizontal scaling (Scaling out): Increasing capacity by adding additional machines 💡 How they compare + the pros and cons of each:
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Time-travel queries: promised in the #SQL Standard 2011; delivered in CockroachDB Beta 2016
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It’s that time of year: the 2021 Cloud Report is here! Now in its third year & more precise than ever, the report evaluates @AWS , @Azure , and @GCPcloud on benchmarks that reflect critical OLTP apps & workloads. Read the highlights:
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We've made massive investments into improving performance and scale in CockroachDB 2.1 -- so much so that CockroachDB is now 50x more scalable than #amazonaurora
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As promised: CockroachDB performance benchmarks! Today we published a whitepaper that demonstrates how CockroachDB achieves high OLTP performance of 128k tpmC on a 2TB TPC-C dataset - 10x more throughput than #AWSAurora . Read the blog post & whitepaper:
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Today we’re launching Managed CockroachDB, the fully hosted and fully managed service created and run by Cockroach Labs that makes deploying, scaling, and managing CockroachDB effortless.
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People we’re thankful for: @kelseyhightower
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CockroachDB is to Spanner what Kubernetes is to Borg.
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If CockroachDB is "open source Spanner," why doesn't it use atomic clocks?
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🎊Announcing CockroachDB 19.2 🎊The release includes an exciting achievement called "Parallel Commits" - a new atomic commit protocol that halves the latency of transactions. Read the blog to learn more: #DBNerds #DistributedSQL #SQL #DevOps #CloudNative
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"k8s is not the missing piece. You can't just add it & expect everything to work out. There are eng decisions that you need to get right outside of k8s. If you get some of those decisions right, k8s can help enforce them." - @kelseyhightower , @thenewstack ,
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CockroachDB is an excellent system of record, but no technology exists in a vacuum. Enter the Cockroach 'changefeed': transactionally and horizontally scalable change data capture. Read more in today's blog by @danhhz :
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If cockroachDB is "open source Spanner," why doesn't it use atomic clocks?
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🤔 Guess how many years ago these young lads built @GIMP_Official ? *bonus points if you can name them
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Rubbing control theory on the Go scheduler:
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🚀 Our series D was co-led by Altimeter & Bond. We couldn't be happier to have such great partners by our side 👩‍💻 Thank you to all our customers & to the #opensource community! We're excited to continue building the best database for modern cloud apps ✏️
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💌 Dear ZFS When we first met in Solaris we were captivated by your bytes. Many things have changed since then, we're both much older now, but every time we look at you we're still thrilled by your trillions of bytes. Happy Valentine's Day, Cockroach Labs #ZFS #CockroachDB
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🎉 We're proud to announce CockroachDB has successfully passed the industry-standard TPC-C at 100,000 warehouses, achieving massive scale while maintaining serializable isolation. Read more on the blog:
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After two years of running nightly Jepsen tests, we've come to learn its powers and limitations as a testing tool. More on our Jepsen journey in this week's blog.
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Putting CockroachDB into pods with @kubernetesio
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🎉 "Adding support for Postgres is especially interesting since newer databases (such as CockroachDB and @TimescaleDB ) are adopting the PostgreSQL syntax and are therefore compatible with Prisma out of the box" 🎉
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🐘 Prisma 1.8 is out – Introducing support for Postgres (incl. experimental support for existing databases). Try it out now!
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The latest CockroachDB release includes a built-from-scratch, cost-based SQL optimizer. On our blog, Engineer Andy Kimball explains what a cost-based SQL optimizer is, and tells the story of how we decided we really, really needed one:
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CockroachDB 19.1 has arrived! We enhanced our distributed SQL capabilities and expanded upon enterprise-grade features for security and data integration, plus a lot more. Read the details on the Cockroach blog:
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CockroachDB Rihanna's Halftime Show 🤝 Scalable Platforms
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🎉 🥂 So proud of all the engineers and product managers at Cockroach Labs for this release. There is work in here that will fundamentally change the way that applications are deployed. For 21.1 release highlights check out the blog:
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Wooly Willy explains SQL table joins
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We put CockroachDB in a head to head price comparison against Amazon Aurora using the TPC-C benchmark -- the industry standard for testing real-world transactional throughput. Aurora was 10x more expensive on identical workloads.
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Dearest @RobinhoodApp , Your application is a work of art. We adore you. And since you've been down we've missed you. Together I think we can build amazing experiences for users - now and forever. Will you accept this 🌹? Your ZERO Downtime Admirer, 𝘊𝘰𝘤𝘬𝘳𝘰𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘋𝘉
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RocksDB has an incredibly rich feature set—that’s why we use it as the storage engine for CockroachDB. This week on the blog, @petermattis and @narayanarjun take a deep dive into why we chose @RocksDB and some of the features we’re using today.
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CockroachDB provides ACID transactions across a distributed database. How's it work? Read on: http://t.co/WISqRfCAgA http://t.co/7GgctBoTwj
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(1/2) We are aware of the offensive content presented at one of the talks at our ESCAPE/19 conference yesterday. We are serious about the CoC for the event and are addressing it with the speaker and company. #escapeconf
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CockroachDB passed @aphyr 's Jepsen tests. What did the tests catch & what did we fix? CTO @bendarnell digs in:
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CockroachDB 1.0 is built to be #ProductionReady ! Use it now and help us make it even better with your feedback.
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We’re thrilled to announce that we’ve raised $160M in Series E funding at a $2B valuation! Thank you to our investors including @indexventures @GVteam @altcap @benchmark for joining our mission to build the most highly-evolved database on the 🌎 @Reuters
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Thrilled to launch CockroachDB Beta & announce our Series A1 funding led by @IndexVentures
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📚 #ReadingGroup : "How @MaterializeInc and other databases optimize SQL subqueries" ✏️ Jamie Brandon A useful explainer of how Materialize decorrelates almost any subquery @frankmcsherry @narayanarjun #PaperReading
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Ever wonder why we chose @golang ? And how we deal with Garbage Collection? Watch this keynote by our CTO, Ben Darnell to learn how we built a massive application using Go: @golang_news @golangweekly #GoLang #Programming #GarbageCollection #Rust #Java
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🌥️ 🌥️ 🌥️ We completed over 1,000 benchmark tests (including CPU, Network Throughput, Network Latency, Storage Read Performance, Storage Write Performance, and TPC-C), on @Azure @googlecloud & @AWS - Check out the results: #DistributedSystems #Cloud
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CockroachDB earned 5/5 stars from @meheller in his review for InfoWorld. We got docked for no JSON support, but guess what's coming in 2.0 (*cough* JSON *cough*). Read his full write-up here:
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Yes. We know you’d technically need 3 for resiliency, but what would you do for a pair of CrocroachDB’s?
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If cockroachDB is "open source Spanner," why doesn't it use atomic clocks?
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The @WellsFargo outage is an unfortunate example of legacy systems built on monolithic infrastructures that crash and burn in the face of disasters, leaving their customers hanging. It's time to abandon the notions of "disaster recovery" and start building for resiliency.
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Cockroach Labs is the #1 large company on Crain’s Best Places to Work in NYC! 🎉 We're honored to be recognized for the work our Roachers do to help each other thrive 💫
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"Building a Social Network" with Go and CockroachDB -- Video 1/11. The whole tutorial is available here:
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Building a Social Network #1 : Login @golang @CockroachDB
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We all have to stand against hate, violence, and racism if we want it to end. To learn more about how Cockroach Labs is working to create positive change, please head to our blog:
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🤔 Which database is this?
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Been thinking about becoming a CockroachDB contributor? Get your feet wet with our first codelab!
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Hey cicadas….You know who doesn’t have 17 yrs of planned downtime? Yeah...you guessed it.
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A tutorial: How to build a simple app in #python using @sqlalchemy , Flask, and CockroachDB:
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This week, we released CockroachDB 2.1. It's easier than ever to migrate from #MySQL and #Postgres , we improved scalability on transactional workloads by 5x, and you can stream changes to Apache Kafka using change data capture. Read all about it:
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👇Quick visualization of traditional merge joiner: 👉 How we're improving the merge joiner through vectorization:
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One thing we can agree on: Benchmarking databases is hard. We measure performance with a lot of tests, including TPC-C. But we encourage you to run the numbers yourself. Here's a guide to walk you through running TPC-C in CockroachDB:
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