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Andy Kimball

Director of Engineering
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Product

How we built a serverless SQL database

We recently announced general availability (GA) for Serverless, with support for change data capture (CDC), backup and restore, and a 99.99% uptime SLA. Read on to learn how CockroachDB Serverless works from the inside out, and why we can give it away for free – not free for some limited period, but free. It required some significant and fascinating engineering to get us there. I think you’ll enjoy reading about it in this blog or watching the recent presentation I gave with my colleague Emily Horing:

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Andy Kimball

October 11, 2022

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How we built a serverless SQL database

We recently announced general availability (GA) for Serverless, with support for change data capture (CDC), backup and restore, and a 99.99% uptime SLA. Read on to learn how CockroachDB Serverless works from the inside out, and why we can give it away for free – not free for some limited period, but free. It required some significant and fascinating engineering to get us there. I think you’ll enjoy reading about it in this blog or watching the recent presentation I gave with my colleague Emily Horing:

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Andy Kimball

October 11, 2022

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System

How we built a cost-based SQL optimizer

Here at Cockroach Labs, we’ve had a continual focus on improving performance and scalability. To that end, our 2.1 release includes a brand-new, built-from-scratch, cost-based SQL optimizer. Besides enabling SQL features like correlated subqueries for the first time, it provides us with a flexible optimization framework that will yield significant performance improvements in upcoming releases, especially in more complex reporting queries. If you have queries that you think should be faster, send them our way! We’re building up libraries of queries that we use to tune the performance of the optimizer and prioritize future work.

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Andy Kimball

November 8, 2018

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