What is CRDB?

1 · CockroachDB · Dec. 27, 2023, 10:30 p.m.
CRDB is shorthand for CockroachDB: the scalable, consistently-replicated, distributed SQL database. And what, exactly, do we mean by “inherently scalable”? Well, a single instance of CRDB can scale from a one laptop to thousands of servers distributed all around the world. Global data, one logical database. CockroachDB was built to be an always-on, distributed relational database able to accept reads and writes on all nodes without generating conflicts. Since distributed applications are inheren...