Jim walker

A distributed SQL database scales easily, is strongly consistent, is resilient, geo-replicates data, speaks SQL, offers data locality, and is cloud neutral.

Learn about the four key architectural differences between Google Cloud Spanner and CockroachDB. Both are distributed SQL, general-purpose databases built for the cloud.

A serverless database is any database that embodies the core principles of the serverless computing paradigm. This blog details what that means for developers.

When should you use a document store and when should you use a relational database? When is the consistency of SQL preferable to the ease of NoSQL? A comparison of the two in the modern era.

Let's unpack some of the architectural differences between PostgreSQL and CockroachDB to understand the challenges of the single server, single instance architecture.

Over the past few years we have seen the emergence of a verifiably new and significant category of database: distributed SQL. What converging factors document that this is a genuine paradigm shift? Find out in our brand new report.

Gartner recently published the 2021 Magic Quadrant for Cloud Database Management Systems and Cockroach Labs has been included in it for the first time.

StatefulSets allow a wide array of stateful workloads to run on Kubernetes. This post covers how Stateful Sets fit with CockroachDB and Kubernetes, then jumps into a tutorial for running CockroachDB on Kubernetes.

Many databases claim to be "global." If you are evaluating products that promise global capabilities — like CockroachDB or Amazon Aurora — they should have these three requirements.

The end of the US/EU Privacy Shield agreement is just one piece of the evolving data compliance regulatory landscape. Here's how CockroachDB can help.

Virtual conferences meet the “virtual badge scan”: we will donate $3 to Women Who Code for every person who gives us their email address.

We attend and sponsor a lot of opinionated cloud shows each year and AWS re:Invent, Google Cloud Next and Microsoft Ignite have become the centers of discussion for all things cloud. And while each of these shows provides great content and an incredible range of speakers, we noticed that there was a lack of an un-opinionated conversation about multi-cloud or hybrid deployments.

Spencer Kimball, CEO of Cockroach Labs, discusses serverless databases and the future of application development in this livestream conversation with Jim Walker.

ACID is a core concept in a relational database. And while many claim to deliver ACID transactions it is important to dive a little deeper into the acronym to understand how it is delivered and what are the trade-offs of different database isolation levels.

Watch this livestream conversation to learn how to build a consistent, resilient architecture that can scale to process millions of financial transactions every day.