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After Three Decades, You Can Finally Have A Distributed SQL Database

January 25, 2021 Timothy Prickett Morgan 2

Without good technology, all the marketing in the world won’t get a company off the ground and keep it in the air, and conversely, without good marketing and sales, all of the technology in the world won’t do it, either. …

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CockroachDB Wants To Take A Bite Out Of Oracle

June 3, 2019 Timothy Prickett Morgan Comments Off on CockroachDB Wants To Take A Bite Out Of Oracle

Cockroach Labs has created a clone of Google’s Spanner geographically distributed database, and it looks like adoption of the CockroachDB database is starting to ride up the blade of the proverbial hockey stick and is moving quickly towards the much steeper handle. …

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Google Spanner Inspires CockroachDB To Outrun It

February 22, 2017 Timothy Prickett Morgan Comments Off on Google Spanner Inspires CockroachDB To Outrun It

There is an old joke that in the post-apocalyptic world that comes about because of plague or nuclear war, only two things will be left alive: cockroaches and Keith Richards, the guitarist for the Rolling Stones. …

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