CockroachDB
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| Original author(s) | Spencer Kimball, Peter Mattis, Ben Darnell |
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| Developer(s) | Cockroach Labs |
| Initial release | 2015 |
| Stable release | 23.1.1
/ May 18, 2023 |
| Repository | |
| Written in | Go |
| Available in | English |
| Type | RDBMS |
| License | multiple |
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| Company type | Private |
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| Industry | Software |
| Founded | 2015 |
| Founder | Spencer Kimball, Peter Mattis, Ben Darnell |
| Headquarters | New York City |
Key people | Spencer Kimball (CEO) Peter Mattis (VP of Engineering) Ben Darnell (CTO) Nate Stewart (Chief Product Officer) Lindsay Grenawalt (Chief People Officer) |
| Services | Commercial database management systems |
| Website | cockroachlabs.com |
CockroachDB is a commercial distributed SQL database management system developed by Cockroach Labs.[1][2]
History
Cockroach Labs was founded in 2015 by ex-Google employees Spencer Kimball, Peter Mattis, and Ben Darnell. Kimball and Mattis had been key members of the Google File System team,[3] while Darnell was a key member of the Google Reader team.[4]
While at Google, all three had used Google-owned DBMS’s Bigtable and its successor, Spanner.[2] After leaving Google, they wanted to design and build something similar.[5] Spencer Kimball wrote the first iteration of the design in January 2014, and began the open-source project on GitHub in February 2014, allowing outside access and contributions.[6]
Development on GitHub attracted substantial contributions, which earned the project the Open Source Rookie of the Year award by Black Duck Software.[7]
The co-founders actively supported the project with conferences, networking, meet-ups, and fund-raising financial rounds.
In June 2019, Cockroach Labs announced that CockroachDB would change its license from the free software license Apache License 2.0 to its source-available license, known as the Business Source License (BSL), which forbids “offer[ing] a commercial version of CockroachDB as a service without buying a license,” while remaining free for community use.[8][9]
Features
CockroachDB stores copies of data in multiple locations to deliver speedy access.[5][10]
It is described as a scalable, consistently-replicated, transactional data store. [11] A single instance can scale from a single laptop to thousands of servers. [2]
CockroachDB is designed to run in the cloud and has a high fault tolerance. According to popular news outlets, it is described as “almost impossible” to take down. [12][13][10]
See also
- Comparison of relational database management systems
- List of tech companies in the New York metropolitan area
- YugabyteDB
- TiDB
References
- ^ Ovide, Shira (June 4, 2015). "CockroachDB Scampers Off With $6.3 Million to Tackle Database Shortcomings". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved February 22, 2020.
- ^ a b c Finley, Klint (June 4, 2015). "Ex-Googlers Get Millions to Help You Build the Next Google". Wired. Retrieved February 22, 2020.
- ^ Metz, Cade (July 10, 2012). "Google Remakes Online Empire with 'Colossus'". Wired. Retrieved February 22, 2020.
- ^ Wauters, Robin (July 28, 2009). "Steal! Ben Darnell Leaves Google Reader Team, Joins FriendFeed". TechCrunch. Retrieved February 22, 2020.
- ^ a b Novet, Jordan (June 4, 2015). "Peter Fenton's latest investment is a database startup called Cockroach". VentureBeat. Retrieved February 22, 2020.
- ^ Ewbank, Kay (June 9, 2015). "CockroachDB Released". I Programmer. Retrieved February 22, 2020.
- ^ Finleey, Klint (January 28, 2015). "These are the hottest new open-source projects right now". Wired. Retrieved February 22, 2020.
- ^ Mattis, Peter; Darnell, Ben; Kimball, Spencer (June 4, 2019). "Why We're Relicensing CockroachDB". CockroachLabs.com. Retrieved February 22, 2020.
- ^ "CockroachDB Community License". Cockroach Labs. Retrieved July 28, 2020.
- ^ a b Babcock, Charles (June 4, 2015). "CockroachDB: Ultimate in Database Survival". InformationWeek. Retrieved February 22, 2020.
- ^ Darfler, Benjamin (August 29, 2014). "CockroachDB: A Scalable, Geo-Replicated, Transactional Datastore". InfoQ. Retrieved February 22, 2020.
- ^ Finley, Klint (July 22, 2014). "CockroachDB is the resilient cloud software built by ex-Googlers". Wired. Archived from the original on May 14, 2015. Retrieved February 22, 2020.
- ^ Finley, Klint (July 21, 2014). "Out in the Open: Ex-Googlers Building Cloud Software That's Almost Impossible to Take Down". Wired. Retrieved February 22, 2020.