Get the lowdown on CockroachDB, the distributed SQL database built to handle the demands of today's data-driven cloud applications. In this hands-on guide, software developers, architects, and DevOps/SRE teams will learn how to use CockroachDB to create applications that scale elastically and provide seamless delivery for end users while remaining indestructible. Teams will also learn how to migrate existing applications to CockroachDB's performant, cloud native data architecture.

If you're familiar with distributed systems, you'll quickly discover the benefits of strong data correctness and consistency guarantees as well as optimizations for delivering ultra low latencies to globally distributed end users.

You'll learn how to:

Design and build applications for distributed infrastructure, including data modeling and schema design

Migrate data into CockroachDB

Read and write data and run ACID transactions across distributed infrastructure

Plan a CockroachDB deployment for resiliency across single region and multi-region clusters

Secure, monitor, and optimize your CockroachDB deployment

Who This Book Is For

Innovative developers: CockroachDB: The Definitive Guide is for developers building modern applications, whether in a small startup or a large enterprise. This guide will teach developers how to build and ship apps with fewer obstacles using a powerful distributed SQL database that just works.

Architects: The Definitive Guide is for modern architects delivering scalable, resilient apps across their IT ecosystem. Architects will learn how to design distributed applications to provide low latency, high availability, and faster performance.

DevOps teams: The Definitive Guide is for strategic IT operators managing applications with data-intensive workloads. Operators will learn how to optimize CockroachDB’s inherent abilities of scale and resilience, efficiently distributing data to meet any workload demand—wherever it’s deployed.

Those already familiar with distributed systems will discover the benefits of strong data correctness and consistency as well as optimizations for delivering low-latency transactions to users anywhere in the world.

It includes specific guidance for anyone transitioning from a monolithic database (e.g., MySQL or PostgreSQL) to a distributed architecture, as well as practical examples for anyone more familiar with NoSQL systems.

Guy Harrison

has worked with databases for more than a decade, has conducted many MySQL and Oracle training seminars, and is author of several books on Oracle, including "Oracle Desk Reference" (Prentice Hall PTR). Currently a product architect at Quest Software, Harrison has conducted many training seminars and has authored several articles for the Oracle Technical Journal. He resides in Australia.

Jesse Seldess

is the VP of Education at Cockroach Labs, where he leads the documentation and training teams. He has nearly 20 years of experience in technical documentation, and has built teams from the ground up at Cockroach Labs and AppNexus (now Xander).

Ben Darnell

is the cofounder and chief architect at Cockroach Labs, where he built the distributed consensus protocols that underpin CockroachDB’s transactional model. He started his career at Google and then went on to a series of startups where he saw firsthand the need for better scalable storage systems.