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Improving Data Imports in CockroachDB with `nodelocal`

Written by on February 13, 2020
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Former intern Georgia Hong writes about the improvements she made to CockroachDB to make importing data without an external service even easier.
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Announcing CockroachDB Support for Django ORM

Written by on January 27, 2020
Python + Distributed SQL, made easy. Today, we’re excited to announce CockroachDB backend support for the Django ORM.
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Using Lateral Joins in CockroachDB 20.1 Alpha

Written by on January 6, 2020
Lateral joins - similar to nested foreign loops - are a type of correlated subquery that allow data sources to reference columns provided by previous data sources in the same query. Give them a spin in CockroachDB.
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How Education First Increased Developer Efficiency with CockroachCloud

Written by on December 17, 2019
Learn why Education First chose CockroachCloud to as their managed database provider.
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Unpacking Competitive Benchmark Claims: Yugabyte vs CockroachDB

Written by on November 19, 2019
Yugabyte frequently compares themselves to CockroachDB, making claims about our performance. We took a closer look. This is our analysis of Yugabyte v2.0.0.
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CockroachDB Passes TPC-C at 100k Warehouses

Written by , and , and on November 14, 2019
CockroachDB has successfully passed the TPC-C benchmark at 100,000 warehouses. And with a max throughput of 1.2m tpmC, CockroachDB can now process 100X the throughput of Amazon Aurora’s last published benchmark.
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Announcing CockroachDB 19.2

Written by on November 11, 2019
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CockroachDB 19.2 improves latency, reliability, and usability. We’re bringing the speed of distributed transactions closer to the theoretical minimum.
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How We Built a Vectorized Execution Engine

Written by and and on October 31, 2019
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CockroachDB is an OLTP database, specialized for serving high-throughput queries that read or write a small number of rows. As we gained more usage, we found that customers weren’t getting the performance they expected from analytic queries that read a lot of rows, like large scans, joins, or aggregations. In April 2018, we started to seriously investigate how to improve the performance of these types of queries in CockroachDB, and began working on a new SQL execution engine. In this…

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Announcing CockroachCloud: CockroachDB as a Service

Written by on October 16, 2019
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Announcing CockroachCloud, a self-service, managed cloud offering of CockroachDB. CockroachCloud makes distributed SQL effortless, from small applications to global applications.
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Get started geo-partitioning data with our command-line CockroachDB demo

Written by on October 10, 2019

CockroachDB offers a number of powerful enterprise features, most notably those related to geo-partitioning tables. Geo-partitioning allows users to control where their data lives geographically, at the row-level. To make geo-partitioning easier for users to try out, we made some updates to cockroach demo that enable you to check out enterprise features without the need for a full deployment. Note that all of the features discussed in this blog will be available in CockroachDB version 19.2. When you run cockroach…

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