Choosing Cockroach DB for Horizontal Scalability

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By Krista Spriggs And Jessica Grebenschikov Our top goal at Storj is to run the largest, most secure, decentralized, and distributed cloud storage platform.

Here is our process for getting CockroachDB running up with our application: One of the first parts of integrating with CockroachDB was to make sure all of our existing SQL was compatible.

We experienced much more transaction contention with CockroachDB and therefore aborted transactions and also slower performance with some of our database access patterns.

We modified our existing scripts to now execute the CockroachDB backup commands directly in the database to trigger a full backup to one of our own storage buckets.

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