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Cockroach Labs is proud to participate in DigitalOcean’s annual Hacktoberfest, a celebration of open source and community innovation. The month-long event encourages everyone from experienced developers to students and code newbies to make positive contributions to an ever-growing community. All backgrounds and skill levels are encouraged to complete the challenge. Once a hacker submits four high-quality pull requests, they receive a custom t-shirt from DigitalOcean.

Simulating a CockroachDB cluster can be an incredibly useful tool for testing, training, and development work. It's an easy process that you can perform directly on localhost using Docker. Today's blog post is a tutorial by Cockroach Labs enterprise architect Fabio Ghirardello on how to simulate a multi-region CockroachDB cluster on localhost.

Today, we are excited to introduce our second Cockroach University course: CockroachDB for Python Developers. This course is designed for application developers looking to advance their education with CockroachDB and learn how to build scalable, resilient applications and services. Similar to our inaugural Getting Started course, this free course includes a series of videos, exercises, and a final exam. However, this course is much more hands-on. You will build a full-stack vehicle-sharing application called MovR in Python using the popular SQLAlchemy ORM. Our goal is for students to walk away from this course feeling confident in building fully-functional applications with CockroachDB.

upper/db is a data access layer written in Go with ORM-like features. It's compatible with PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite, MongoDB, and now, CockroachDB! I am very pleased to announce that our CockroachDB adapter is now in beta and ready to be used!

This blog is written by guest authors Robin de Silva Jayasinghe, Thomas Pötzsch, and Joachim Mathes. Robin de Silva Jayasinghe, is a Sr. software engineer based in Germany working at synyx GmbH & Co. KG. synyx is an agile software provider in Karlsruhe, Germany that works together with different companies to find the best possible IT-solutions for their challenges. Thomas and Joachim are working as software and systems engineers at Contargo, one of the leading container hinterland logistics in Europe.

This post was originally published in 2017, upon announcing that CockroachDB’s support for Hibernate was in beta. Today, we’re excited to announce some big news: the CockroachDB dialect for Hibernate is officially available! 🥳 Hibernate now offers first-class support for CockroachDB. You can read more about the dialect, and our journey to get there, in this blog post.

Since its inception, CockroachDB has relied on RocksDB as its key-value storage engine. The choice of RocksDB has served us well. RocksDB is battle tested, highly performant, and comes with a rich feature set. We’re big fans of RocksDB and we frequently sing its praises when asked why we didn’t choose another storage engine. Today we’re introducing Pebble.

Peter Mattis

September 15, 2020

The first version of CockroachDB Dedicated, our database-as-a-service product, had our users fill out a Google doc with their cloud deployment preferences. We’ve come a long way since that initial proof of concept (including, yes, building a UI). More importantly, we’ve put implementation patterns in place that make something complicated (like configuring a cloud deployment) scalable. As we’ve written about before, choosing to run CockroachDB Dedicated on Kubernetes is a huge part of that implementation pattern.

Databases are evolving. For the past decade, we’ve read thinkpiece after thinkpiece taking firm stances on the “SQL vs. NoSQL” debate--some of which declaratively pronounce the death of SQL or the death of NoSQL. In DZone’s annual report on SQL v NoSQL database usage, we’re excited to see that we’re moving beyond that paradigm. What we’re seeing in this report is more nuanced, and a lot more exciting: the death of the “SQL vs. NoSQL” binary altogether.