Everything about CockroachDB

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: CockroachDBA 5-minute orientation
2. Pick up a classic book: Getting Started with CockroachDBThe most-reprinted book on the subject
3. Read the landmark paper: NewSQL Databases Assessment: CockroachDB, MariaDB Xpand, and VoltDBCited 10 times
4. Go sideways: Spencer Kimball (computer programmer)A closely related topic
5. Go sideways: Distributed SQLA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• NewSQL Databases Assessment: CockroachDB, MariaDB Xpand, and VoltDB

  Eduardo Pina, Filipe Sá, Jorge Bernardino · 2022 · Future Internet · 10 citations

• A demonstration of multi-region CockroachDB

  Arul Ajmani, Aayush Shah, Alexander Shraer · 2022 · Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment · 0 citations

• Adaptive Query Optimization and Workload-Aware Resource Allocation in CockroachDB Distributed Cloud Databases

  Ramesh Venkatachalapathy · 2026 · International Journal of Industrial Engineering · 0 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• 📕Getting Started with CockroachDBKishen Das Kondabagilu Rajanna · 2022
• CockroachDBJesse Seldess, Ben Darnell · 2022
• 📕Practical CockroachDBRob Reid · 2022

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🔗 Related topics

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• Ben Darnell Ben Darnell is an American computer programmer, entrepreneur, and business executive. He is the chief technology officer for Cockroach Labs, a company…
• Peter Mattis Peter Mattis is an American computer programmer, entrepreneur, and business executive. He is the CTO and co-founder for Cockroach Labs, a company he co-founded…
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