How we implemented consistent, distributed, incremental backup in CockroachDB.

Using CockroachDB means shifting operational thinking from disaster recovery to disaster resilience, and completely side steps the risks associated with vendor lock-in.

This post is the first in a series on how CockroachDB handles its data and discusses the mechanisms it uses to rebalance and repair.

This post is the first in a series on how CockroachDB handles its data and discusses the mechanisms it uses to rebalance and repair.

Sometimes, reading stale data is ok — preferred, even. Let's look at "follower reads" (aka "stale reads"), a technique for getting good performance from a database accessed from multiple geographic regions.

CockroachDB Serverless is now in GA, a new migration toolset, and integrations with Vercel and HashiCorp.

There are two kinds of technologists in the world: those who see the database as a means to end and those who see it as an end in itself. For a long time, the latter group has dominated the database conversation, which has focused deeply on performance tuning…

CockroachDB serverless is the first truly scalable serverless SQL database. Learn how it works and how a serverless sql database can relieve the operational burden of developers.