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Re:How I write back ends by zahrc on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @07:36AM (#22116971)
I’ve never heard of cockroachdb, what are the advantages of it and why is it preferable to Postgres?
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Re:How I write back ends by vvern on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @08:12AM (#22117210)
A primary advantage is horizontal scalability. If you need more capacity, just add more nodes.

Additionally it offers better fault tolerance and zero-downtime online upgrades. For more advanced use cases it can be deployed in a geo-replicated topology and configured with partitioning for low latency transactions when confined to a single region while proving strong consistency and a single logical database globally.

Disclaimer: I work on cockroach.

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