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Name That Database
CockroachDB 101
Identify The Teammate
100
NoSQL
What is Not Only SQL?
100
This open-source relational database is known for its elephant logo
What is PostgreSQL?
100
CockroachDB uses this language to read & write data
What is SQL?
100
This teammate just got married
Who is Samuel Queiroga?
200
RPO
What is Recovery Point Objective?
How much data loss (in time) you can tolerate
Example: An RPO of 5 minutes means in the worst case you’re OK losing up to 5 minutes of recent transactions if there’s a failure
200
This Google database, described in a famous research paper, inspired CockroachDB’s architecture
What is Spanner?
200
CockroachDB guarantees correct results even with many users at once using this type of transactions
What are ACID transactions?
200
This teammate has been to 42 states
Who is Jared Carlson?
"I’ve been to 42 states but somehow never made it to Michigan even though I grew up less than 4 hours away"
300
RTO
What is Recovery Time Objective?
How long it can take to get the system back to normal after an outage
Example: An RTO of 30 minutes means you must be able to restore service within 30 minutes of a major incident
300
This AWS NoSQL database is key-value based and boasts high throughput & predictable performance
What is DynamoDB?
300
CockroachDB automatically splits & spreads data across nodes, so you don’t have to manage this yourself
What is sharding?
300
This teammate has a blue belt
Who is Amy Robinson?
400
SLA
What is Service Level Agreement?
It matters because we promise our customers specific uptime and service quality, and those commitments are written into Service Level Agreements (SLAs)
400
DAILY DOUBLE
This distributed SQL database is PostgreSQL-compatible. It was developed by a company founded by former Facebook engineers
What is YugabyteDB?
400
To scale CockroachDB, you add more of these instead of upgrading a single machine
What are nodes?
400
This teammate's favorite snack is H-E-B dark chocolate walnuts
Who is Scotland Butler?
500
MOLT
What is Migrate Off Legacy Technology?
This is a Cockroach Labs–built migration toolkit for moving from legacy databases to CockroachDB
Did you know? FanDuel migrated their financial ledger system to CockroachDB using the MOLT toolkit (from MySQL). MOLT gave them a controlled migration path and a built-in rollback option, so they could safely move their mission-critical workload
500
This distributed SQL database from PingCAP is MySQL compatibile
What is TiDB?
500
In CockroachDB, multiple locations can all serve requests at the same time instead of sitting idle as backups
What is active-active?
500
The name Dean gave to his blue cray fish
Who is Felipè?