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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. It was fixed in CRDB also: https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/issues/42942
    comment by latch · 2020-02-07 · in Migrating to CockroachDB
  2. …have work to be done incorporating the more DDL focused tests that tripped up YugaByte. [0]: https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/pull/40600
    comment by irfansharif · 2020-01-31 · in Jepsen: Etcd 3.4.3
  3. Calling cockroachdb "not open source" is a stretch. https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach (The title is also wildly inaccurate to what's in the article, and should just have the articles title)
  4. …in a Go program will by default add the executable-stack flag, as we discovered in CockroachDB: https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/issues/37885
    comment by bdarnell · 2019-11-17 · in Infectious Executable Stacks
  5. …to manage the deployment. You can `kubectl apply` this config and get a fully-functioning cluster. https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/blob/master/cloud/k... Utilities like Helm et al. are certainly easier than managing a bunch of…
    comment by BobVawter · 2019-11-14 · in CockroachDB 19.2
  6. Not technically open-source (BSL-licensed), but yes, source available on https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/ .
    comment by irfansharif · 2019-11-13 · in CockroachDB 19.2
  7. …hand and I didn't enjoy it... 1. https://www.cockroachlabs.com/docs/stable/orchestrate-cockro... 2. https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/blob/master/cloud/k...
    comment by zzyzxd · 2019-11-12 · in CockroachDB 19.2
  8. …to waste memory per-datum) - we have typed containers, each of which have a primitive slice within. https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/blob/master/pkg/col...
    comment by jordanlewis · 2019-11-11 · in How We Built a Vectorized SQL Engine
  9. …write intents sent in the past but previously stuck in transit) are simply rejected. [1]: https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/blob/master/pkg/sto...
  10. …patents inhibit the Progress of Science and useful Arts. Here's cockroachdb's version of the BSL: https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/blob/master/license... You may be right that this doesn't allow modification. I hope sentry words…
    comment by brlewis · 2019-11-06 · in Re-Licensing Sentry
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    CockroachDB Gains Support for Recursive Common Table Expressions
    story by minxomat · 2019-10-10 · 0 comments
  12. …data warehouse options). 1. https://www.cockroachlabs.com/docs/stable/detailed-sql-suppo... 2. https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/issues/32448 3. https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/issues/32522
    comment by manigandham · 2019-07-18 · in Ask HN: Anyone Using CockroachDB in Production?
  13. …core contributed most, but I wasn't involved at any point so this is not a reliable assessment. [0] https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/graphs/contributors
    comment by amenod · 2019-06-04 · in Relicensing CockroachDB
  14. (Cockroach Labs founder) The details are in the "additional usage grant" clause: https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/blob/8acfe8ffd0028c... We decided to draw the line at whether the end user has direct control over table schemas. If…
    comment by bdarnell · 2019-06-04 · in Relicensing CockroachDB
  15. …a link to the new license in the blog post but it is in their github repo for anyone interested https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/blob/master/license...
    comment by haney · 2019-06-04 · in Relicensing CockroachDB
  16. > it’s not fully compatible quite yet https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/issues?q=is%3Aopen+... . So you're waiting for CockroachDB to implement features before you suppoort it?
  17. …but are black magic underneath are a great target. However, it’s not fully compatible quite yet https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/issues?q=is%3Aopen+... Citus / timescale / pipelinedb are much easier and we already support timescale…
  18. …Here is an RFC describing how bounded-staleness follower reads will work in an upcoming version: https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/blob/master/docs/RFCS/20180603_follower_reads.md The real reason that CockroachDB does not yet…
    comment by andydb · 2019-01-26 · in CockroachDB's Consistency Model
  19. https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/blob/master/docs/te...
    comment by zuzun · 2019-01-18 · in Building CockroachDB on top of RocksDB
  20. …And the story is already clear and thought out in the license file and Makefile: https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/blob/master/LICENSE
  21. …write up some documentation for developers that gives a nice overview of how the optimizer works: https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/blob/master/pkg/sql... Might be worth a read if you're interested in implementation techniques.
    comment by andydb · 2018-11-09 · in How We Built a Cost-Based SQL Optimizer
  22. …and correctness (i.e. fewer bugs), consider these PRs that we recently merged: https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/pull/31977 https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/pull/30636 These PRs randomly disable transformation rules and pe
    comment by andydb · 2018-11-08 · in How We Built a Cost-Based SQL Optimizer
  23. …[1] https://www.cockroachlabs.com/docs/stable/interleave-in-pare... [2] https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/issues/24932#issuec... [3] https://www.pingcap.com/success-stories/#TiDB [4] https://www.cockroachlabs.com/customers/
  24. …care about the stability of their product, one more reason to keep recommending CockroachDB. [0] https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/issues/32048
  25. …indexes are designed, though not everything outlined in that document is implemented yet. [0]: https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/blob/master/docs/RF...
    comment by foldU · 2018-04-04 · in CockroachDB 2.0 released
  26. …me the most was that the single-node performance was roughly 5-10 times worse with CockroachDB. https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/issues/17777#issuec...
    comment by amq · 2018-04-04 · in CockroachDB 2.0 released
  27. …m/grafana/grafana/blob/master/Gopkg.toml https://github.com/containous/traefik/blob/master/Gopkg.toml https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/blob/master/Gopkg.t... https://github.com/github/hub/blob/master/Gopkg.toml These include…
    comment by cstejerean · 2018-02-09 · in GitHub shouldn't allow username reuse
  28. …( https://github.com/grpc-ecosystem/grpc-gateway ). Here's how we did it in CockroachDB: https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/blob/24ed8df04719a1... The supporting code (protoutil) is https://godoc.org/github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/p…
    comment by tdrd · 2018-01-17 · in Twirp: A new RPC framework for Go
  29. Yes: https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach The parent poster was referring to CockroachDB as CRDB.
  30. …you run into when using it, you may want to see the discussion about postgrex compatibility at https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/issues/5582 . If you run into different problems please do file the issue :). I'm also an Elixir…
  31. …you found is the best resource. If you want even more detail, you can check out the original RFC: https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/blob/master/docs/RF...
  32. …due to heap fragmentation. I haven't looked at this for a while but I believe it's still an issue. https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/issues/2007 https://github.com/golang/go/issues/18896 https://github.com/golang/go/issues/14045
    comment by tychver · 2017-12-01 · in Erlang Garbage Collector
  33. JSONB support is on our 2.0 roadmap and is actively under development. Roadmap: https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/wiki/Roadmap Confirmed Development (I see you already reference this issue above):…
  34. no, not even a JSON datatype is now supported. I cannot use a database without JSON for my use case https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/issues/2969 An compatible interface is not compatibility and JSON as an example is not the biggest…
  35. The accompanying RFC, Parallel SQL Statement Execution: https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/blob/0da3da734ce6bf...
  36. …true that setting up a secure cluster is kind of annoying right now. But the kubernetes templates ( https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/tree/master/cloud/k... ) do support secure mode now, and the plan is to provide more like this so…
  37. …on our roadmap and is actively being worked on right now. Should be available for version 1.2. See: https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/blob/master/docs/RF...
  38. …you’re looking for. Table partitioning is currently on the roadmap and you can find the RFC here https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/blob/master/docs/RF... .
  39. Very interesting. What do you think about CockroachDB ( https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach )? Is that serious enough to the challenge, from outside Google?
    comment by piggybox · 2017-10-09 · in Designing Data-Intensive Applications
  40. …a key feature of our 1.2 release scheduled for April 2018. Our solution can be found at this RFC ( https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/pull/18683 ). One thing to note, we don't require you to define your partitions up front. We'd love…
    comment by awoods187 · 2017-10-05 · in PostgreSQL 10 Released
  41. In that I would be curious on RocksDB vs LMDB. There was an issue about this but it didn't progress: https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/issues/14#issuecomm... For some reason(s) nobody is using LMDB on distributed dbs (only know…
  42. Besides the blog, you can find interesting stuff in the source repo, in the technotes and RFC dirs: https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/tree/master/docs/te... https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/tree/master/docs/RF... There's…
  43. …this up again: NewSQL. There are quite a few new choices out there, Google Spanner, Cockroachdb( https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach ), TiDB ( https://github.com/pingcap/tidb ). All of them are very easy to scale while maintaining the…
  44. …just to name a few. Besides, the first two are open source... https://github.com/pingcap/tidb https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach They provide the features of both RDBMS, such as ACID transactions, SQL, and the scalability of NoSQL.
    comment by jinqueeny · 2017-09-22 · in MongoDB has filed to go public
  45. To each their own. I've been having fun watching the progress of https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach && https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/cockroachdb-beta-passes-j...
    comment by MoOmer · 2017-07-13 · in Toward Go 2
  46. …form of linearizability however, providing ordering for any observer or chain of observers[1]. [1]: https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/blob/master/docs/de...
    comment by irfansharif · 2017-07-10 · in Don't Settle for Eventual Consistency (2014)
  47. …this up - reads must go to the lease holder, until the lease expires. Nice. EDIT: Design doc link: https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/blob/master/docs/de...
    comment by falcolas · 2017-06-27 · in The Limits of the CAP Theorem
  48. …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 · 2017-06-21 · in DynamoDB to Postgres: Why and How
  49. …in even more of the technical specifics, the original design RFC might be interesting too: https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/blob/master/docs/RF...
  50. …is inspired by Spanner and available now. Github page says "CockroachDB is production-ready" https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach
    comment by philipcristiano · 2017-05-16 · in Cloud Spanner is now production-ready