Traditional benchmarks miss the moments that matter.
Most performance tests show how databases behave in perfect conditions, but the real world isn’t perfect. Failures happen where zones go offline, networks get flaky, and upgrades introduce risk.
That’s why we created the Performance under Adversity benchmark: to measure how databases perform when things break. We go beyond traditional TPC-C tests to measure performance during real-world failures. You’ll get continuous, time-series insights into throughput, latency, and recovery at every step. This interactive benchmark helps you identify weak spots before they affect your users and architect for true availability.
This is what resilience looks like. This is what modern benchmarking demands.
Benchmarking for the Real-World
Click on the tooltips to explore how CockroachDB performed during real-world failure scenarios such as region outages, node restarts, disk stalls, all while maintaining consistent performance.
Benchmarked for:
1. Baseline Performance
Measure steady-state throughput under normal conditions.
2. Internal Operational Stress
Simulate database-intensive operations such as CDC, full backups, schema changes, and rolling upgrades.
3. Disk Stalls
Randomly inject I/O freezes to evaluate storage resilience.
4. Network Failures
Simulate node-to-node network partitions.
5. Node Restarts
Unpredictably reboot database nodes (1 at a time) to test recovery time.
6. Zone Outages
Take down all nodes in an availability zone (AZ).
7. Regional Outages
Take down all nodes in a region.
Inside the User Guide
Understand latency and throughput metrics
Recovery analysis for each failure type
Benchmark methodology breakdown
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Don’t just take our word for it. Learn how to run it yourself.
Replicate the benchmarks from our dashboard to validate the results for yourself.
Disclaimer: Results are from specific test setups. Try the dashboard yourself to see how CockroachDB fits your needs.