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Cockroach Labs develops CockroachDB and Cockroach Continuum, an agentic database cloud-native, distributed SQL database designed for extreme resilience, seamless horizontal scaling, and global deployment.

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Implementing Backup

2017112 points19 comments Databases & Data details

How we implemented consistent, distributed, incremental backup in CockroachDB.

Progress in performance and scalability with CockroachDB

2018105 points43 commentscited by 3Databases & Data details

CockroachDB 2.1 is 50x more scalable than Amazon Aurora at less than 2% of the price per tpmC. Read on to see performance benchmarks of CockroachDB 2.1, including the latest TPC-C results.

Nested Transactions in CockroachDB 20.1

2020100 points25 comments Databases & Data details

What do nested transactions look like in an ACID environment? We explore the journey of a nested SQL transaction in CockroachDB in this post.