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CockroachDB

CockroachDB

"The Resilient, Cloud-Native SQL Database"

Overview

CockroachDB delivers the reliability, robust consistency and ACID transactions of RDBMS, while offering the horizontal scaling and distributed architecture of NoSQL. All of this is built to thrive in any environment, ensuring effortless scalability, global availability and distribution, and continuous uptime all with a familiar, compliant SQL interface.

Features

Distributed SQL Architecture

  • PostgreSQL wire protocol compatibility

  • Serializable, distributed transactions

  • Horizontally scalable SQL database

  • Automatic sharding with consistent hashing

  • Consensus-based replication with Raft protocol

  • Distributed query processing engine

Cloud-Native Resilience

  • Survives machine, rack, and datacenter failures

  • Self-healing replication with automatic repair

  • No single point of failure in architecture

  • Five-nines availability design

  • Zero downtime operations and upgrades

  • Automated recovery from network partitions

Global Data Distribution

  • Multi-region, multi-cloud deployment capability

  • Automatic data locality for low-latency access

  • Geo-partitioning for data sovereignty compliance

  • Follow-the-workload data balancing

  • Cross-region and multi-region transactions

  • Region-aware replication controls

Enterprise-Grade Performance

  • Distributed SQL query execution

  • Vectorized execution engine

  • Column-family storage engine

  • MVCC (Multi-Version Concurrency Control)

  • Tunable consistency levels for read operations

  • Adaptive query optimization

PostgreSQL Compatibility

  • Standard SQL support with extensions

  • PostgreSQL wire protocol compatibility

  • Client driver compatibility

  • Common PostgreSQL tools support

  • Familiar SQL dialect for developers

  • Migration paths from PostgreSQL databases

Operational Simplicity

  • Automated operations with minimal human intervention

  • Built-in monitoring and alerting capabilities

  • Rolling upgrades with zero downtime

  • Online schema changes without blocking

  • Integrated backup and restore functionality

  • Simple horizontal scaling operations

Security Features

  • TLS encryption for all communications

  • Role-based access control system

  • SQL privileges management

  • Enterprise authentication integration

  • Row-level security for multi-tenant data

  • Certificate-based node identity

Comprehensive Observability

  • SQL-based monitoring interface

  • Prometheus and Grafana integration

  • Detailed transaction tracing

  • Workload analysis tools

  • Performance recommendations

  • Capacity planning insights

Developer Experience

  • Familiar SQL interface for productivity

  • ORM compatibility with popular frameworks

  • JSON and spatial data type support

  • TIME TRAVEL queries for historical data

  • Extensive documentation and tutorials

  • Advanced data types and functions

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