Practical CockroachDB: Building Fault-Tolerant Distributed SQL Databases

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R. ReidPractical CockroachDBhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8224-3_3

3. Concepts

Rob Reid¹  

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Liss, Hampshire, UK

 

Chapter 3ConceptsIt’s time to dive deeper into CockroachDB! This chapter explores some of CockroachDB’s building blocks, including data types, indexes, and geo-partitioning.

First, let’s explore the top-level objects that make up CockroachDB.

Database Objects

As Figure 3-1 shows, objects in CockroachDB are arranged hierarchically.

Figure 3-1

CockroachDB object hierarchy

At the top level of the CockroachDB object hierarchy , there are databases. ...