This article explains what NewSQL databases are, outlines their core characteristics, reviews major products such as Spanner, CockroachDB, TiDB, OceanBase and TDSQL, and discusses typical use cases ranging from financial services to HTAP workloads.
This article evaluates whether the distributed databases CockroachDB and YugabyteDB can replace PostgreSQL as the backend for GitLab, detailing the test environment, migration steps, functional checks across core GitLab features, observed errors, and a final comparison of compatibility and stability.
This article evaluates GitLab's compatibility with two PostgreSQL‑compatible distributed databases, CockroachDB and YugabyteDB, by setting up identical environments, running the GitLab setup process, documenting failures and successes, and drawing conclusions about extension support, index compatibility, and overall feasibility.
This roundup highlights Microsoft’s VSCode for the Web, the .NET 6 Hot Reload controversy and restoration, CockroachDB Serverless launch, IBM’s open‑source hybrid‑cloud guide, and a survey‑backed look at how Kubernetes is reshaping enterprise database management.
This article explains the differences between relational and NoSQL databases, outlines the definition, benefits and characteristics of distributed databases, and reviews ten widely used distributed database products such as TiDB, Google Spanner, CockroachDB, YugabyteDB, OceanBase, and others.
An objective performance comparison between YugabyteDB (v1.3.0.0) and CockroachDB (v19.1.3) was conducted using the official test scenarios, covering write, read, mixed, secondary index, and transactional workloads on a three‑node Docker environment, with analysis of results and conclusions on their relative strengths.
This article explains CockroachDB’s partitioning features—especially GEO‑Partitioning—detailing its evolution, implementation principles, advantages over traditional databases, and a step‑by‑step hot‑cold data separation use case with multi‑region deployment, configuration commands, performance considerations, and Q&A.
The article introduces CB‑SQL, JD Retail’s next‑generation elastic database based on CockroachDB, and comprehensively explains its overview, layered architecture, storage replication, cluster management, MVCC, hybrid logical clocks, lock‑free distributed transactions, CDC changefeeds, and SQL interface support.
This article explains JD Logistics' warehouse management system database architecture, covering local and centralized deployment modes, the UDBA automated DBA platform, performance tuning practices, fault‑self‑healing mechanisms, automated data archiving, and MySQL 5.7 upgrade and scaling strategies to ensure high performance and availability.
