Distributed SQL: An Evolution of the Database

1 · CockroachDB · April 25, 2019, midnight
As organizations transition to the cloud, they eventually find that the legacy relational databases that are behind some of their most critical applications simply do not take advantage of the promise of the cloud and are difficult to scale. It is the database that is limiting the speed and effectiveness of this transition. To address this, organizations want the reliability of a tested relational data store, such as Oracle, SQL Server, Postgres, and MySQL, but with the benefits of scale and glo...