Andy Woods
Director, Product Management
Product
Announcing Improved CockroachDB Cloud Pricing
Reduced prices in compute for CockroachDB Cloud Standard and Advanced plans. Only pay for what you use in data transfer, backups, and changefeeds.
Andy Woods
November 1, 2024
Engineering
Product
MOLT Fetch: The Best Way to Migrate Your Data to CockroachDB
After choosing CockroachDB as your next-generation storage system, you may wonder, “How do we move our organization’s data into CockroachDB?”
Andy Woods
July 18, 2024
Product
Control data latency and availability with a few SQL statements
Slow applications kill business. Greg Lindon (in this now archived deck), noted that 100ms in latency lowered Amazon’s sales by 1%. Marissa Mayer pointed out that speed really matters when she explained the results of A/B tests as “500ms of additional load time dropped Google searches by 20%.”
Andy Woods
May 20, 2021
Product
Distributed spatial data in free, open source CockroachDB
CockroachDB is a reliable, relational database, built to help you scale your transactional workloads in the cloud. Our focus on common relational data types has brought bulletproof resilience and effortless scalability to all sorts of customer applications, from customer service applications to global data stores for cloud-connected devices, to streaming video providers. Today, we’re excited to bring that same bulletproof resilience and effortless scale to new use cases: spatial data types in CockroachDB. The same open-source database you use to store and access common relational data types (e.g., INT, TEXT, UUID) can now be used with GEOMETRY and GEOGRAPHY spatial data types. And best of all, it’s free.
Andy Woods
April 30, 2021
Product
Use the Cockroach DB Console to Observe and Troubleshoot SQL
Whether you’re a developer or operator, we want to give you the observability tools you need to monitor your CockroachDB cluster. This includes standard tools such as logs, metrics like Prometheus and health endpoints, and alerting. But modern observability requires more than just the standard tools.
Andy Woods
January 26, 2021
Product
Using lateral joins for business analytics in CockroachDB 20.1
CockroachDB’s 20.1 release supports lateral joins, which can dramatically reduce the lines of code needed to arrive at key business analytics. Today, I’m going to walk you through a demo of lateral joins and showcase how you might use them to run analytic queries directly in CockroachDB.
Andy Woods
July 16, 2020
Product
How to get zero-downtime scaling from single-region to multi-region applications
CockroachDB offers a number of features aimed at making it easy to support your application in multiple regions. In CockroachDB 20.1, we introduced a new feature Online Primary Key Changes that allows you to upgrade your application from a single-region to multi-region with zero downtime. We wrote a bit recently about the technical challenges involved in building online primary key changes and in this blog post, we'll walk through some of the use cases and benefits the feature can lead to.
Andy Woods
June 11, 2020
Performance
AWS, Azure, and GCP respond to the 2020 Cloud Report
In December 2019, we published the 2020 Cloud Report and an accompanying blog post, which summarized original research we conducted benchmarking the performance of Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure (Azure), and the Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
Andy Woods
March 12, 2020
Performance
GCP comes out swinging against AWS and Azure in 2020 Cloud Report
Since 2017, Cockroach Labs has run thousands of benchmark tests across dozens of machine types with the goal of better understanding performance across cloud providers. If there’s one thing we’ve learned in our experiments, it’s this: benchmarking the clouds is a continuous process. Since results fluctuate as the clouds adopt new hardware, it’s important to regularly re-evaluate your configuration (and cloud vendor).
Andy Woods
December 11, 2019