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Getting Started with CockroachDB

By : Kishen Das Kondabagilu Rajanna
Book Image

Getting Started with CockroachDB

By: Kishen Das Kondabagilu Rajanna

Overview of this book

Getting Started with CockroachDB will introduce you to the inner workings of CockroachDB and help you to understand how it provides faster access to distributed data through a SQL interface. The book will also uncover how you can use the database to provide solutions where the data is highly available. Starting with CockroachDB's installation, setup, and configuration, this SQL book will familiarize you with the database architecture and database design principles. You'll then discover several options that CockroachDB provides to store multiple copies of your data to ensure fast data access. The book covers the internals of CockroachDB, how to deploy and manage it on the cloud, performance tuning to get the best out of CockroachDB, and how to scale data across continents and serve it locally. In addition to this, you'll get to grips with fault tolerance and auto-rebalancing, how indexes work, and the CockroachDB Admin UI. The book will guide you in building scalable cloud services on top of CockroachDB, covering administrative and security aspects and tips for troubleshooting, performance enhancements, and a brief guideline on migrating from traditional databases. By the end of this book, you'll have gained sufficient knowledge to manage your data on CockroachDB and interact with it from your application layer.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
1
Section 1: Getting to Know CockroachDB
4
Section 2: Exploring the Important Features of CockroachDB
9
Section 3: Working with CockroachDB
Appendix: Bibliography and Additional Resources

Database and table definitions

The Databases dashboard contains the list of databases, with a list of tables in them. You can also view grants given to various users.

In the following screenshot, you can see the Databases dashboard, with options to view Tables and Grants:

Figure 8.7 – Databases dashboard showing the tables and grants options in the dropdown

If you select the Tables option, you will see a list of tables for all the databases with some stats. If the stats are not loaded, you can click on the Load stats for all tables option to populate the table-level stats, as can be seen in the following screenshot:

Figure 8.8 – Databases dashboard showing tables

From this dashboard, you can also view the DDLs for all the tables, as shown in the following screenshot:

Figure 8.9 – Databases dashboard showing the DDLs of tables

Grants will show user-level permissions with respect to a...