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…One of the most popular distributed DB is Cockroach which is written in go and also uses Raft: https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/tree/master/pkg/raf...

comment by Thaxll · 2026-08-11 · in Go is an ideal language for AI-assisted software engineering

…/github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/110879/files - https://github.com/moby/moby/pull/10321/files - https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/pull/74743/files Do we have linters that catch these?

comment by Mawr · 2025-12-05 · in Thoughts on Go vs. Rust vs. Zig

…and to have had a reason to! 0: https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.c... 1: https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/blob/f48b3438a296aa... 2: https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/blob/f48b3438a296aa... 3:…

comment by vvern · 2025-06-14 · in Implementing Logic Programming

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CockroachDB has changed their license, again

story by tison · 2025-03-19 · 5 comments

Still very much "open-source": https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach But relicensed to the "CockroachDB Software License" as a form of BSL to prevent reselling.

comment by mble_ · 2024-12-05 · in 7 Databases in 7 Weeks for 2025

…Apache = open source Parts of CockroachDB under CCL that do NOT transition to Apache OSS: https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/tree/master/pkg/ccl > the sub-tree under pkg/ccl is under a different license (CCL) that does not transition…

comment by geenat · 2024-08-16 · in CockroachDB license change

…Apache = open source Parts of CockroachDB under CCL that do NOT transition to Apache OSS: https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/tree/master/pkg/ccl > the sub-tree under pkg/ccl is under a different license (CCL) that does not transition…

comment by geenat · 2024-08-16 · in CockroachDB license change

…catch before)? "Source code in a given file is licensed under the BSL and ..." That is sucky. [0] https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach?tab=License-1-ov-fi...

comment by karmakaze · 2024-08-15 · in CockroachDB license change

https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/graphs/contributors

comment by tbarbugli · 2024-08-15 · in CockroachDB license change

> CockroachDB - the open source, cloud-native distributed SQL database. https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach

comment by warvariuc · 2024-08-15 · in CockroachDB license change

…how subtle gradients look striped and dirty on many websites if displayed with only 24-bit color: https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/issues/91316

comment by zX41ZdbW · 2024-06-25 · in Round Rects Are Everywhere

…to how TiKV ( https://tikv.org/ ), Kudu ( https://kudu.apache.org/kudu.pdf ) or CockroachDB ( https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach ) are designed. Instead of relying on a specific consensus implementation, we have decided to…

comment by stsffap · 2024-06-12 · in Show HN: Restate – Low-latency durable workflows for JavaScript/Java, in Rust

cockroachdb might be close: https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach

comment by perplexa · 2024-04-09 · in A MySQL compatible database engine written in pure Go

…prevent lost update anomalies between two UPDATEs Some of the gory details are in the public RFC: https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/blob/master/docs/RF... This blog post just discusses the last point, but please AMA.

comment by michae2 · 2024-04-06 · in Why CockroachDB doesn't use EvalPlanQual

…The preview release for both will be dropping in Jan. Some links if you're interested: - RFC: https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/blob/master/docs/RF... - Hermitage test: https://github.com/ept/hermitage/blob/master/cockroachdb.md

comment by nvanbenschoten · 2023-12-20 · in Jepsen: MySQL 8.0.34

…all Windows apps are Linux apps? > Yes you can for the most part You can't statically link glibc: https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/issues/3392 glibc can break stuff: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/08/valve-dev-understandab... I…

comment by voidr · 2023-08-04 · in Linux surpasses the Mac among Steam gamers

…Here's one from docker too: https://github.com/moby/moby/pull/10321 What about from CockroachDB? https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/pull/74743 Even the linter missed this one!

comment by nulld3v · 2023-06-20 · in Gopher Wrangling: Effective error handling in Go

Here you go: https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/issues/52009 Not only deprecated, but completely removed a few years ago as seen in: https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/issues/69150

comment by doodlesdev · 2023-04-22 · in Scaling Databases at Activision [pdf]

…parts are 1. free and 2. on GitHub. https://www.cockroachlabs.com/docs/stable/licensing-faqs.htm... https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach

comment by PhilippGille · 2022-12-26 · in Ask HN: What is your distributed and fault-tolerant PostgreSQL setup?

To defend etcd's implementation though, it is what cockroachdb uses. https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/blob/master/go.mod#...

comment by eatonphil · 2022-10-04 · in Raft Is So Fetch: The Raft Consensus Algorithm Explained Through Mean Girls

regarding FTS: https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/pull/85185 just sayin'.

comment by sean0- · 2022-08-30 · in Ask HN: What has been your experience with CockroachDB?

…use cases. Here's the relevant section of the original design proposal, if you're interested: https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/blob/master/docs/RF... .

comment by nvanbenschoten · 2022-07-19 · in Back from the Future: Global Tables in CockroachDB

…the same go where the average code looks like this, a big long chain of if blabla return nil, err ? https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/blob/5fb4478b94ecaf... like, code like this is exactly the reason why exceptions were invented

comment by jcelerier · 2022-07-10 · in Beginner's guide to error handling in Rust

Explained why they don't produce official, supported builds. https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/issues/62903#issuec...

comment by _joel · 2022-06-16 · in 2022 Cloud Report

…it doesn't support triggers and stored procedures, so we can't use it right now (closely following https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/issues/28296 ) * Fly.io price scaling is too aggressive 6$ -> 33 -> 154 -> 1000s a month and no…

comment by ranguna · 2022-05-28 · in Neon – Serverless Postgres

Minor correction, both of them are source available, but not open source Cockroach DB license - https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/blob/2c4e2c6/LICENS... Mongo license - https://github.com/mongodb/mongo/blob/39e4b70/LICENSE-Commun...

comment by avinassh · 2022-05-28 · in Neon – Serverless Postgres

…whose schemas are controlled by such third parties. (disclaimer: I work at Cockroach Labs) [1] - https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/blob/master/license...

comment by rafiss · 2022-04-04 · in A database for 2022

…with BSL. I randomly checked a code file [1] and it seems the code is licensed under BSL. [0] - https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/blob/2c4e2c6/LICENS... [1] - https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/blob/2c4e2c6/pkg/kv...

comment by avinassh · 2022-04-02 · in A database for 2022

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As of Future System Time

story by michae2 · 2022-04-01 · 0 comments

…code base that could benefit from generics, but we haven't spend time looking into it yet. [0]: https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/blob/master/pkg/sql... [1]: https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/how-we-built-a-vectorized...

comment by jordanlewis · 2022-03-31 · in Generics can make your Go code slower

listen/notify edit: https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/issues/41522

comment by ledgerdev · 2022-03-07 · in CockroachDB: The Resilient Geo-Distributed SQL Database

…is more or less complete. There’s a runtime cost to using it, but that can be mitigated. See https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/tree/master/pkg/sql... for a reflection-driven, embedded logic query language in go that achieves…

comment by vvern · 2022-01-27 · in An embeddable Prolog scripting language for Go

…Core - Open-source with foundational features. Uff... Let's go give a look at the licenses: https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/blob/master/LICENSE So many licenses, including the Business Source License which is non-free license.…

comment by znpy · 2021-12-08 · in Leaving MySQL

…CockroachDB[1] has been using it since very early in the project. [0] https://reviewable.io/ [1] https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach

comment by tdrd · 2021-11-17 · in Stacked changes: how FB and Google engineers stay unblocked and ship faster

…not present in base PostgreSQL. [0]: https://github.com/hasura/graphql-engine/issues/678 [1]: https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/issues/28296 [2]: https://www.cockroachlabs.com/docs/v21.1/stream-data-out-of-...

comment by infogulch · 2021-10-27 · in How we built a serverless SQL database

…the go statement. We also don’t like errgroup because its context propagation is implicit. See https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/pull/62243 .

comment by vvern · 2021-03-19 · in Go Statement Considered Harmful (2018)

Hi, regarding number 3, I have filed https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/issues/58032 . Would love to get your feedback on the proposal; does it address your need? do you have a different idea for how it would work?

comment by radub · 2020-12-17 · in Why CockroachDB and PostgreSQL Are Compatible

…3 - Can't tell if an upsert was an insert or an update 4 - No triggers (this is pretty huge) (1) https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/issues/57348

comment by latch · 2020-12-17 · in Why CockroachDB and PostgreSQL Are Compatible

…if you were so inclined :) I added array inverted index support a little while ago in this PR: https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/pull/45157 A simple full-text search engine would not be too different at the lower levels.

comment by jordanlewis · 2020-08-05 · in Let's build a full-text search engine

…below issue. I'm interested in hacking on it as it seems like a big reward for not that much work. https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/issues/41285

comment by vvern · 2020-06-19 · in A Twitch channel from which viewers can play with CockroachDB

…of Postgres Triggers. Seems like the issue hasn't moved very far in a while [1] - any plans? [1] https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/issues/28296

comment by dvasdekis · 2020-06-19 · in A Twitch channel from which viewers can play with CockroachDB

…mainly because it mains maintaining consistency stats between replicas hard. See an attempt here: https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/pull/42514 .

comment by vvern · 2020-06-19 · in Nested Transactions in CockroachDB 20.1

…1a) (as you noted) should be in the next release 1b) working on it, should be in the next release: https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/pull/50320 1c) I filed https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/issues/50418 to track. It seems…

comment by vvern · 2020-06-19 · in A Twitch channel from which viewers can play with CockroachDB

…to be pathologically slower in some cases can chime in. We'd also love to hear about those cases in https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/issues . [1] https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/issues/17229 [2]…

comment by vvern · 2020-06-18 · in Nested Transactions in CockroachDB 20.1

…at the code. 3. I am aware of multi-column-families not working (but that should get tackled?): https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/issues/28667 I know PG is easier in that respect, but the performance ceiling is much lower.

comment by namibj · 2020-06-18 · in Nested Transactions in CockroachDB 20.1

…need anyways, because, as-is, a permanent loss of 2 nodes is impossible to recover from (2) (1) https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/issues/28948 (2) https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/issues/17186

comment by latch · 2020-05-12 · in CockroachDB 20.1

…are very slow to take and very slow to restore. There are even cases where it can fail to backup ( https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/issues/28948 ). There are a lot of little bugs, which isn't a huge deal, but it's hard to find and…

comment by latch · 2020-05-06 · in Cockroach Labs Gets $87M in New Funding

…with goyacc to provide good error messages for SQL passing. It’s a very interesting read really. https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/tree/master/pkg/sql...

comment by cube2222 · 2020-03-05 · in Why not to use (f)lex, yacc or bison

…[1]: https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/sql-in-cockroachdb-mappin... [2]: https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/blob/master/docs/te...

comment by irfansharif · 2020-02-11 · in Pgcat – Enhanced PostgreSQL logical replication

…we have a tracking issue that shows the items in our backlog that would improve compatibility: https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/issues/33441

comment by rafiss · 2020-02-08 · in Migrating to CockroachDB