SIGMOD 2020: Cockroach Labs Publishes Research Paper on CockroachDB

Cockroach Labs has published a research paper on their distributed SQL database, CockroachDB. The paper, "CockroachDB: The Resilient Geo-Distributed SQL Database," presents the design of CockroachDB and its novel transaction model that supports consistent geo-distributed transactions on commodity hardware. It also describes how CockroachDB replicates and distributes data to achieve fault tolerance and high performance, as well as how its distributed SQL layer automatically scales with the size of the database cluster while providing the standard SQL interface that users expect. The paper is available for download and will be presented at SIGMOD 2020 by first author Rebecca Taft.