I published an article on the Cockroach Labs Blog: Local and distributed query processing in CockroachDB. In this article, I explain the software architecture and overall mechanisms in the SQL execution engine of CockroachDB, in the code leading up to version v1.1. Also available via the Wayback Machine.| dr knz @ work
I published an article on the Cockroach Labs Blog: On the Way to Better SQL Joins in CockroachDB. In this article, I explain how I improved the first design of SQL joins in CockroachDB to support basic forms of optimizations in CockroachDB v1.0. Also available via the Wayback Machine …| dr knz @ work
I published an article on the Cockroach Labs Blog: Modesty in Simplicity: CockroachDB’s JOIN. In this article, I explain how I designed the first (and overly simplistic) implementation of SQL joins prior to CockroachDB v1.0. Also available via the Wayback Machine.| dr knz @ work
CockroachDB happens to be somewhat compatible with PostgreSQL, meaning that software written to use PostgreSQL can sometimes (often!) be used with CockroachDB without changes. Why was CockroachDB designed to be compatible with PostgreSQL? Perhaps surprisingly, the answer to this question is currently (as of early May 2018) not documented publicly …| dr knz @ work
In 2020, I published the following two articles: Data flows and security architecture in CockroachDB Authentication configuration in PostgreSQL and CockroachDB The original text was targeting version v20.1 of CockroachDB. This month, I have updated these two pages to reflect the improvements between v20.1 and the upcoming v22 …| dr knz @ work
