We live in an increasingly interconnected world, with many organizations operating across countries or even continents. To serve their global user base, organizations are replacing their legacy DBMSs with cloud-based systems capable of scaling OLTP workloads to millions of users. CockroachDB is a scalable SQL DBMS that was built from the ground up to support these global OLTP workloads while... Read More

Distributed consensus algorithms like Paxos and Raft provide an important building block for distributed systems, but there's a lot more that goes into a resilient and scalable distributed database. CockroachDB's key-value layer is built on many independent and overlapping Raft consensus groups. In this talk I'll explain why we built it this way, and some of the expected and unexpected... Read More

Learn more about CockroachDB from Google alum and Member of Technical Staff, Alex Robinson! The talk will focus on how CockroachDB ensures data integrity, no matter how broadly distributed. Read More