CockroachDB is a source-available distributed SQL database management system developed by Cockroach Labs. Its relational functionality is built on a distributed, transactional key-value store designed to withstand infrastructure failures, and it maintains wire compatibility with PostgreSQL. A CockroachDB cluster can span multiple nodes across different failure domains such as data centers or cloud regions and can scale horizontally and vertically across bare metal, VMs, containers, Kubernetes, and cloud environments; the database takes its name from cockroaches for their renowned resilience in surviving disasters.
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SignificanceA distributed SQL database built for horizontal scale and PostgreSQL wire compatibility, designed in the tradition of Google Spanner. 1 Connections
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CockroachDB's consistency model was designed to match the capabilities of Google Spanner as closely as possible, without requiring Spanner's specialized time-synchronization hardware; its founders had used Google's Bigtable and Spanner before starting Cockroach Labs.
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CockroachDB is a source-available distributed SQL database management system developed by Cockroach Labs.
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