FYI the general technique Cockroach is using is commonly called Hybrid Logical Clocks, though Cloudera call their very similar idea Virtual Time as I recall. A

FYI the general technique Cockroach is using is commonly called Hybrid Logical Clocks, though Cloudera call their very similar idea Virtual Time as I recall. Anyhow, here's a nice summary: http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2014/07/hybrid-logical-clocks.html http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2014/07/hybrid-logical-cloc...