[yRetsyM]

CockroachDB seems to be getting a lot of attention and marketing cycles lately... What has made it the focus of late?

[irfansharif]

Because we blogged about our new vectorized sql engine[1] & our new parallel commit protocol[2] recently, two "big"-ish engineering lifts that were packed into this one release.

[1]: https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/how-we-built-a-vectorized...

[2]: https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/parallel-commits

[aaronblohowiak]

It has a lot of promise to provide Spanner-like functionality to people outside of Google.

[erdaniels]

Marketing

[robbrown451]

Probably has to do with their decision to name it after the cockroach. I mean, if they had called it MaggotDB or BotFlyDB or TapewormDB, people might find it unappealing.

[ixtli]

Those aren't nearly as resilient though. Now, if you made a version of sqlite that replicated itself inside your program then you could use botfly ...

[fnordsensei]

The successor will have to be named TardigradeDB.

[SEJeff]

You can't even kill it with Boring Company's flamethrower! Tardigrades are virtually indestructible as going into space and coming back won't always kill them.