DAOs are supposed to be the next big thing, but we’ve seen some big news recently where DAOs have failed to meet…
Wow! I can’t believe the last one of these I did was almost 4 years ago!! I find that new…
If you’ve read any of my older posts, you’ll know that I used to work for CockroachDB. I recently moved to join Timescale, an open-source time-series database, so if it’s not obvious, I have a soft spot for…
As GDPR comes into focus in the upcoming year, there has been talk in the database world of how partitioning can provide DBAs with more control over where their data lives. Partitioning is a fundamental building block that enables several interesting…
The end of the year is such a busy time! As a follow-up to my last blog post about Handling Contention with PostgreSQL, here’s a post that digs into how CockroachDB handles contention. Like PostgreSQL, CockroachDB uses MVCC to figure out the right version of data…
Understanding how concurrency is achieved under the hood is pretty important for anyone using databases since it impacts things like isolation guarantees and performance. I had originally wanted to share a comparison of how CockroachDB and PostgreSQL use MVCC…
