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Distributed UDFs: How we're building database functions from the ground up
Learn how you can make your distributed application more efficient by using UDFs in CockroachDB.
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How to build a payments system that scales to infinity (with examples)
Handling a payments system can get complex in a hurry as your company scales up. But the right tools and architecture can do a lot of that hard work for you.
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Time, TIMETZ, Timestamp, and TimestampTZ in PostgreSQL
At Cockroach Labs, we’ve spent a lot of time getting our SQL semantics to match PostgreSQL as much as possible - all so that you can use the awesome PostgreSQL language with a powerful, distributed backend like! Getting this right involves getting the Time, TimeTZ, Timestamp and TimestampTZ types right - which has proven quite the quest! Numerous bugs have been filed and fixed - and with it, our mastery of these types in PostgreSQL (and the Go time library) has increased!
Engineering
Increase query speed with Forward Indexes on JSON columns
During the Winter of 2023, I had the wonderful opportunity to work as a Software Engineering Intern on the SQL Queries team at Cockroach Labs. During the scope of this internship, I found myself working with indexes and specifically implementing forward indexes on columns storing JSONB, which resulted in speeding up query execution time by up to 98% in some cases! This blog post will go over the motivations for the implementation of these indexes, the main challenges that came up with the implementation, and some demonstrations of the staggering results.
Engineering
How we built easy row-level data homing in CockroachDB with REGIONAL BY ROW
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City Storage Systems: CockroachDB on Kubernetes at global scale
Building a startup for global scale from day one isn’t easy – especially if you’re on the infrastructure team. But with forward-thinking approach, the team at City Storage Systems has built a back end that works across regions and clouds, at global scale, while significantly reducing manual labor and the opportunities for human error to throw a wrench into the works.
Product Engineering
Executing SQL queries from the browser
Over the last couple weeks, you might have noticed a new tab on the cluster view of CockroachDB Cloud! We just released an open preview of our Browser SQL Shell, which allows writing queries on your database within seconds of cluster creation.
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True Tales of Survival: Twenty Years of (Server) Solitude
Enjoy this special Valentine’s Day edition of True Tales of Survival: Twenty Years of (Server) Solitude. Names have been redacted to protect the (possibly not so) innocent.
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A sports betting app saved millions switching from PostgreSQL to CockroachDB
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No Dirty Reads: Everything you always wanted to know about SQL isolation levels (but were too afraid to ask)
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