How we stress test and benchmark CockroachDB for global scale

4 · CockroachDB · Jan. 25, 2024, 5:30 p.m.
Scale where others fail. That’s the CockroachDB tagline, but it’s more than just words to us. We built CockroachDB to be a reliable, performant, highly available database for mission-critical workloads at global scale. But is it? How do we know what the database is actually capable of? Of course, we get valuable feedback and information from global-scale CockroachDB customers like DoorDash, Netflix, and a number of Fortune 50 banks. But we also keep close tabs on things ourselves by regularly st...