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CockroachDB seems to be getting a lot of attention and marketing cycles lately... What has made it the focus of late?
by yRetsyM 7y ago
CockroachDB seems to be getting a lot of attention and marketing cycles lately... What has made it the focus of late?
- erdaniels 7y agoMarketing
- robbrown451 7y agoProbably has to do with their decision to name it after the cockroach. I mean, if they had called it MaggotDB or BotFlyDB or TapewormDB, people might find it unappealing.
- ixtli 7y agoThose aren't nearly as resilient though. Now, if you made a version of sqlite that replicated itself inside your program then you could use botfly ...
- fnordsensei 7y agoThe successor will have to be named TardigradeDB.
- SEJeff 7y agoYou can't even kill it with Boring Company's flamethrower! Tardigrades are virtually indestructible as going into space and coming back won't always kill them.
- irfansharif 7y agoBecause we blogged about our new vectorized sql engine[1] & our new parallel commit protocol[2] recently, two "big"-ish engineering lifts that were packed into this one release. [1]: https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/how-we-built-a-vectorized-sql-engine/ https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/how-we-built-a-vectorized... [2]: https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/parallel-commits https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/parallel-commits
- aaronblohowiak 7y agoIt has a lot of promise to provide Spanner-like functionality to people outside of Google.