[rb2k_]

How would one communicate with this DB?

I'd love to see some API examples.

[Meai]

Also benchmarks comparing it to RethinkDb, Mongodb, and sql examples (supposedly this is NewSQL, how much SQL does it even support?) These questions are important

[teraflop]

Here's the transactional key/value store API: http://godoc.org/github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/kv

And an RDBMS-like layer on top of it: http://godoc.org/github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/structured