CockroachDB: The Definitive Guide: Distributed Data at Scale

Description

CockroachDB: The Definitive Guide: Distributed Data at Scale.

Build resilient, cloud-native applications with CockroachDB, the distributed SQL database designed for modern, large-scale systems.

This fully updated second edition provides a practical, hands-on introduction to CockroachDB, helping software developers, solution architects, and DevOps/SRE professionals build applications that can scale effortlessly, remain highly available, and deliver reliable performance across distributed environments.

As organizations move toward cloud-native architectures, CockroachDB offers a powerful approach to managing data with built-in resilience, strong consistency, and seamless scalability. This guide walks you through the concepts and techniques needed to design, deploy, and operate applications that continue running even in the face of infrastructure failures.

Whether you’re building a new system or modernizing an existing one, you’ll learn how to migrate applications to CockroachDB’s distributed architecture while maintaining data integrity, improving performance, and reducing operational complexity. The book also demonstrates how to optimize workloads for low-latency access across geographically distributed users.

Inside, you’ll learn how to:

• Understand the core principles and advantages of distributed SQL databases.
• Build, deploy, manage, and optimize applications using CockroachDB.
• Design efficient schemas and data models for distributed environments.
• Plan and execute successful migrations from existing databases.
• Perform reliable reads, writes, and ACID transactions across multiple nodes.
• Configure resilient multi-region clusters for maximum availability.
• Secure, monitor, troubleshoot, and tune CockroachDB deployments for optimal performance.

Packed with practical examples and proven best practices, this guide equips data professionals and engineering teams with the knowledge needed to harness CockroachDB’s full capabilities and create scalable, fault-tolerant applications built for today’s global, always-on world.