CockroachDB

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Spencer Kimball: Netflix operates hundreds of CockroachDB clusters
“They have hundreds of cockroach clusters already.”
Spencer Kimball Nov 17, 2022 ▶ 23:03 A Cloud SQL Database Built for Survival | Cockroach CEO & Co-Founder, Spencer Kimball
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Stewart: CockroachDB presents as a single Postgres database to developers
“From the point of view of the application developer, it looks like they're talking to a single Postgres database, but it just so happens to be elastically scalable.”
Nate Stewart Aug 5, 2020 ▶ 9:03 Fireside Chat: Nate Stewart (CPO & BOD at Cockroach Labs) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
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Stewart: Google Spanner paper provided the foundation for CockroachDB
“With some breakthroughs in computer science, there was the Google Spanner paper that came out, and it said, hey, you can get transactions. You can have these types of guarantees in a distributed environment, and that was really the foundation for the work that…”
Nate Stewart Aug 5, 2020 ▶ 12:50 Fireside Chat: Nate Stewart (CPO & BOD at Cockroach Labs) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
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Stewart: CockroachDB scales reads and writes arbitrarily across supported PostgreSQL features
“We don't have full Postgres compatibility today, but every Postgres feature we have is cloud native. It will use the full power of the cluster to serve your queries and we can scale writes arbitrarily. We can scale reads arbitrarily.”
Nate Stewart Aug 5, 2020 ▶ 15:28 Fireside Chat: Nate Stewart (CPO & BOD at Cockroach Labs) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
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Stewart: Cockroach Cloud will be default way people experience CockroachDB
“Cockroach Cloud, which we believe will be the default way that people experience CockroachDB”
Nate Stewart Aug 5, 2020 ▶ 19:32 Fireside Chat: Nate Stewart (CPO & BOD at Cockroach Labs) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
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Stewart: Online education will drive CockroachDB adoption into mission-critical apps
“We believe that online education really is the future way that we're going to get CockroachDB into more mission critical applications.”
Nate Stewart Aug 5, 2020 ▶ 26:47 Fireside Chat: Nate Stewart (CPO & BOD at Cockroach Labs) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
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CockroachDB combines NoSQL elastic scalability with SQL strong consistency
“So, you know, Cockroach bridges the gap. It's both of those things. It has both of those things, and it doesn't compromise.”
Spencer Kimball Oct 17, 2018 ▶ 0:57 Ultra-Resilient SQL for Global Business // Spencer Kimball, Cockroach (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
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CockroachDB ran a 50,000-warehouse TPC-C test across 100+ nodes
“We recently ran a TPCC 50 K, which is 50,000 warehouses. It's a pretty big cluster and that was over a hundred plus nodes so, you know, it does scale.”
Spencer Kimball Oct 17, 2018 ▶ 2:13 Ultra-Resilient SQL for Global Business // Spencer Kimball, Cockroach (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
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CockroachDB's default configuration achieves a 4.5-second recovery time objective
“Our expected time for the way cockroach comes out of the box configured is 4.5 seconds.”
Spencer Kimball Oct 17, 2018 ▶ 5:22 Ultra-Resilient SQL for Global Business // Spencer Kimball, Cockroach (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
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CockroachDB's regional cluster architecture closely mirrors Amazon Aurora
“This is a pretty interesting and common way to run Cockroach, and it's similar to what Amazon's doing with Aurora.”
Spencer Kimball Oct 17, 2018 ▶ 6:55 Ultra-Resilient SQL for Global Business // Spencer Kimball, Cockroach (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
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CockroachDB collapses entire SQL transactions into single consensus latency round trips
“When you think of a SQL transaction from the begin to, you know, the various selects to the updates and inserts to the end transaction, we collapse that all into a single consensus latency.”
Spencer Kimball Oct 17, 2018 ▶ 7:48 Ultra-Resilient SQL for Global Business // Spencer Kimball, Cockroach (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
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CockroachDB hits full TPC-C throughput globally despite 100-millisecond latency increases
“We've run TPC-C-T-K at this, and we get full throughput. The latencies are just higher, and they're higher by, like, a hundred milliseconds.”
Spencer Kimball Oct 17, 2018 ▶ 12:07 Ultra-Resilient SQL for Global Business // Spencer Kimball, Cockroach (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
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CockroachDB publishes all source code openly without a closed enterprise edition
“We don't have a, an enterprise edition that's closed source. All of our source code is, is available. It's all in the same GitHub repo.”
Spencer Kimball Oct 17, 2018 ▶ 18:47 Ultra-Resilient SQL for Global Business // Spencer Kimball, Cockroach (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
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Comcast uses CockroachDB's geo-partitioning feature within the United States
“Well, one interesting one is Comcast. And, ah, they're using it only in the United States, but they're actually using this geo-partitioning feature.”
Spencer Kimball Oct 17, 2018 ▶ 19:23 Ultra-Resilient SQL for Global Business // Spencer Kimball, Cockroach (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
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CockroachDB exclusively enforces serializable isolation without offering weaker alternatives
“We actually use serializable and it's not even an option. It's everything is serializable, which means your application developers never have to know When they have to do a for select update or something like that in order to lock safely if they're just using …”
Spencer Kimball Oct 17, 2018 ▶ 23:14 Ultra-Resilient SQL for Global Business // Spencer Kimball, Cockroach (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
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Former Facebook CTO Jeff Rothschild called CockroachDB 'the one'
“Jeff had helped me turn down pretty much every database company that ever existed, and he said, this is the one. And, you know, if we were at Facebook, we could do it all over again. This is the product we wish we could use”
Peter Fenton Mar 18, 2016 ▶ 15:33 A Fireside Chat with Benchmark General Partner Peter Fenton (Data Driven NYC / FirstMark)
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Kimball in 2015: CockroachDB SQL support is aspirational and not started
“The top, the very top, SQL, is aspirational. We do intend to do it but we haven't started working on it yet.”
Spencer Kimball Jun 19, 2015 ▶ 11:45 Spencer Kimball, Cockroach Labs // A New Kind of Database (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
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CockroachDB has open-source contributors from the US government and China
“We actually have you know open source contributors, like a whole team of 10 people from China, for example, And, ah, you know, some people from the US government because, ah, you know, they're so interested in it.”
Spencer Kimball Jun 19, 2015 ▶ 19:15 Spencer Kimball, Cockroach Labs // A New Kind of Database (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)

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