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CockroachDB — the cloud native, distributed SQL database designed for high availability, effortless scale, and control over data placement.

170 mentions on Hacker News by 114 people: 12 stories, 158 comments · first 2014-05-26 · latest 2026-08-11

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  1. …showing the query execution plan. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hash_join#Grace_hash_join [2]: https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/pull/12221 [3]: https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/pull/12221#issuecom...
    comment by irfansharif · 2017-05-10 · in CockroachDB 1.0
  2. …should answer your question, specifically the sub-section on hybrid logical clocks. [1]: https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/blob/master/docs/de...
    comment by irfansharif · 2017-05-10 · in CockroachDB 1.0
  3. …features, but there are really some things that prevent a smooth transition from Postgres. [0] https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/issues/2969
    comment by daliwali · 2017-05-10 · in CockroachDB 1.0
  4. …useful for this use case. Also, we use JSONB fairly extensively -- I see the tracking issue here https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/issues/2969 but no movement.
    comment by octernion · 2017-05-10 · in CockroachDB 1.0
  5. …introduced in Postgres 9.4, but I'm not sure if there are major issues with compatibility. [0] https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/issues/2115
    comment by daliwali · 2017-05-10 · in CockroachDB 1.0
  6. …transactions across multiple raft groups, etc), you might find the design doc interesting: https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/blob/master/docs/de...
    comment by state_machine · 2017-05-10 · in CockroachDB 1.0
  7. …postgresql replacement. Does anybody know if this feature is planned in the short or medium term ? https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/issues/6130 https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/issues/9712
    comment by v_elem · 2017-05-10 · in CockroachDB 1.0
  8. …the “perf:” prefix, if you want to follow along. Here are all our issues that track performance: https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%... Here’s our open source repository where we keep our load generators:…
    comment by arjunnarayan · 2017-05-10 · in CockroachDB 1.0
  9. …a "clockless" mode, which of course isn't clockless, but depends less on the offset threshold: https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/issues/14093 That said, even today, configuring a cluster with a fairly high maximum clock offset is…
    comment by tschottdorf · 2017-05-10 · in CockroachDB 1.0
  10. …advantage of the easy correctness of simply doing reads from the KV store on every operation. [1] https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/blob/master/docs/RF...
    comment by petermattis · 2017-05-02 · in What to Expect in CockroachDB 1.0
  11. …Also on the subject of the protocol, we've run into a need for a (server-initiated) ping message ( https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/pull/10188 ). Maybe I'm missing something here (I admittedly only skimmed ticket and things it…
    comment by anarazel · 2017-04-22 · in The SQL layer in CockroachDB
  12. …Also on the subject of the protocol, we've run into a need for a (server-initiated) ping message ( https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/pull/10188 ).
    comment by bdarnell · 2017-04-22 · in The SQL layer in CockroachDB
  13. …to go through the standard query optimizations, no context into how far along this effort is. [1]: https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/tree/master/pkg/kv [2]: https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/tree/master/pkg/sql [3]:…
    comment by irfansharif · 2017-04-22 · in The SQL layer in CockroachDB
  14. …behind cockroachdb/cockroach[2]) fares pretty well. [1]: https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/ [2]: https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach
  15. Really solid. I fed it a recent nasty line from our Makefile: https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/blob/4aeef50/build/... Looks like it doesn't deal with subshells, but otherwise it did reasonably well.…
    comment by tdrd · 2017-03-30 · in Explain Shell
  16. …clock to any level of accuracy, why do you trust your local CPU? Cockroach DB does this correctly. https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/blob/master/docs/de...
  17. Created an issue here: https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/issues/13634
    comment by niyazpk · 2017-02-16 · in CockroachDB beta-20161013
  18. …size. [3] You can follow along on one of the PRs that address this specific performance issue here: https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/pull/13501
    comment by arjunnarayan · 2017-02-16 · in CockroachDB beta-20161013
  19. …biased) opinion they've gone out of their way to keep everything as transparent as possible. [0] - https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/tree/master/docs/RF...
    comment by irfansharif · 2017-02-09 · in Better SQL joins in CockroachDB
  20. As simple as a distributed, horizontally scalable SQL database, perhaps? ( https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach ). Those dumb Go programmers and their toy programs ( https://quicknotes.io/n/1XB0 ).
    comment by kjksf · 2017-01-25 · in Making the move from Scala to Go
  21. https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach CockroachDB heavily utilizes RocksDB.
  22. …context (e.g. obtained via WithTimeout or WithCancel), which is relatively uncommon in practice. https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/blob/6b0698f/pkg/ut...
  23. …of discussions across various revisions and tracked to resolution. [0]: https://reviewable.io [1]: https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/pull/10618
  24. …the ones with the heaviest discussions could maybe point you to what you were looking for [2]. [1] https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/labels/stability [2] https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%...
  25. …they are positioned to be a great backing store for a lot of interesting use cases. Nice work! [1] https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/issues/2970
  26. …project CockroachDB[2] is open sourced under Apache-2.0. [1]: https://www.cockroachlabs.com/ [2]: https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/
  27. https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach which was inspired by this paper: http://research.google.com/archive/spanner.html which google made available for all in form of it's cloud datastore: https://cloud.google.com/datastore/ "We believe…
    comment by mesmerizingsnow · 2016-09-17 · in Consistency is Consistently Undervalued
  28. …applications can tolerate the lack of consistent reads and only single document atomicity. Read https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/blob/master/docs/de... to pick up what you missed about cockroach specifically. I've read most of…
    comment by jasonwatkinspdx · 2016-08-26 · in A Focus on Stability
  29. …design principles and deliver a similar product[1]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NewSQL [1] https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach#design
  30. …aspects of the server set up to function (e.g. the KV layer). You are free to browse the code at https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach if you want a more in-depth look.
  31. …progress. However, we are not totally content with this: we have an issue for our 1.0 release ( https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/issues/5727 ) to do some serious investigation of this, with some alternatives already suggested. For…
  32. It's not a nosql database if that's what you're thinking. https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/issues/2970
  33. …source projects that have adopted Reviewable, for example https://github.com/servo/servo/pulls , https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/pulls , and https://github.com/dolphin-emu/dolphin/pulls . Each PR will have a link to the…
    comment by piotrkaminski · 2016-04-05 · in Ask HN: How do you review code?
  34. …s://www.cockroachlabs.com/docs/secure-a-cluster.html (Much thanks to Go's extensive standard library: https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/blob/master/securit... ) I've lost count on the number of projects that leaves "securing the…
    comment by e12e · 2016-03-31 · in CockroachDB Skitters into Beta
  35. The designed is compared against Spanner's several time in the interesting design doc: https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/blob/master/docs/de...
    comment by bru · 2016-03-31 · in CockroachDB Skitters into Beta
  36. …into scalable distributed transactions. Design documentation is here if you care to read it: https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/blob/master/docs/de...
    comment by teraflop · 2016-03-31 · in CockroachDB Skitters into Beta
  37. …influxdb[3] just to name a couple that are written in go. [1] https://github.com/coreos/etcd [2] https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach [3] https://github.com/influxdata/influxdb
  38. CockroachDB is probably the closest system to spanner that I've come across (and built in Go) https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach
  39. This appears to hammer GitHub's API pretty aggressively. I attempted to import https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach and a few hours later my API limit is exceeded. Seems bad.
  40. CockroachDB's time api is based on the Hybrid Logical Clocks paper. We credit it on our design doc ( https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/blob/master/docs/de... ) and in the source code. This blog post doesn't mention HLC because the…
    comment by hnkimb3558 · 2016-02-18 · in Living Without Atomic Clocks
  41. …used to distribute compiled binaries of Go code for all platforms? Is it still up any chance? [0] - https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach#architecture
  42. …inspired CockroachDB's transactional model, we have mentioned a number of them in our design doc ( https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/blob/master/docs/de... ). As for Percolator, that system is not a general purpose database but an…
  43. …key. If you're interested, there's more information available in our primary design document: ( https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/blob/master/docs/de... )
  44. …transaction strategy. If you're interested, you can find a complete rundown of our strategy here: ( https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/blob/master/docs/de... ). However, that is a very terse document: this blog post was an attempt to…
  45. …of the actual implementation. At least, there are a bunch of references to MVCC in their codebase: https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/tree/master/storage...
  46. …C&C: http://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/2pmmfu/using_the_blo... Persistence Layer: https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach Dissemination Layer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gossip_protocol Sprinkle in some AES and public / private…
  47. The new Cockroachdb implementing in GOlang https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach
  48. …but is mostly NoSQL in the sense of implementing a different query language than SQL.) [1]  https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/blob/master/docs/de... [2]  https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/wiki/Roadmap
    comment by lobster_johnson · 2015-06-05 · in Hello World
  49. https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach "The highest level of abstraction is the SQL layer (currently not implemented)."
    comment by mindstab · 2015-06-04 · in Hello World
  50. From here [0]: "The highest level of abstraction is the SQL layer (currently not implemented)" [0] https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach#architecture
    comment by mattparlane · 2015-06-04 · in Hello World