At Cockroach Labs, we're focused on making data easy for our customers. CockroachDB is designed as a vendor-agnostic, cloud-native database for transactional workloads. We offer a number of benefits over traditional relational databases including serializable isolation, online schema changes, and high availability fault-tolerance. Today, we want to demonstrate another CockroachDB differentiator: multi-region support for global scale. In this blog post, we introduce Follower reads, a key feature for supporting multi-region reads with low latency when your use case can accept stale data.

Last fall we wrote about how CockroachDB was 50x more scalable than Amazon Aurora as evidenced on the industry-standard TPC-C benchmark. We’re pleased to announce that CockroachDB has doubled that performance benchmark by successfully passing TPC-C at 100,000 warehouses. And with a max throughput of 1.2m tpmC, CockroachDB can now process 100X the throughput of Amazon Aurora’s last published benchmark.