CockroachDB: The Definitive Guide

by Guy Harrison, Jesse Seldess, Ben Darnell

Overview

Get the lowdown on CockroachDB, the elastic SQL database built to handle the demands of today's data-driven world. With this practical guide, software developers, architects, and DevOps teams will discover the advantages of building on a distributed SQL database. You'll learn how to create applications that scale elastically and provide seamless delivery for end users while remaining exceptionally resilient and indestructible.

Written from scratch for the cloud and architected to scale elastically to handle the demands of cloud native and open source, CockroachDB makes it easier to build and scale modern applications. If you're familiar with distributed systems, you'll quickly discover the benefits of strong data correctness and consistency guarantees as well as optimizations for delivering ultralow latencies to globally distributed end users.

With this thorough guide, you'll learn how to:

• Plan and build applications for distributed infrastructure, including data modeling and schema design
• Migrate data into CockroachDB
• Read and write data and run ACID transactions across distributed infrastructure
• Optimize queries for performance across geographically distributed replicas
• Plan a CockroachDB deployment for resiliency across single-region and multiregion clusters
• Secure, monitor, and optimize your CockroachDB deployment

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781098100193
Publisher:	O'Reilly Media, Incorporated
Publication date:	04/08/2022
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	488
File size:	12 MB
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About the Author

Guy Harrison has worked with databases for more than a decade, has conducted many MySQL and Oracle training seminars, and is author of several books on Oracle, including "Oracle Desk Reference" (Prentice Hall PTR). Currently a product architect at Quest Software, Harrison has conducted many training seminars and has authored several articles for the Oracle Technical Journal. He resides in Australia.

Jesse Seldess is the VP of Education at Cockroach Labs, where he leads the documentation and training teams. He has nearly 20 years of experience in technical documentation, and has built teams from the ground up at Cockroach Labs and AppNexus (now Xander).

Ben Darnell is the cofounder and chief architect at Cockroach Labs, where he built the distributed consensus protocols that underpin CockroachDB’s transactional model. He started his career at Google and then went on to a series of startups where he saw firsthand the need for better scalable storage systems.