Horizontal scale for reads and writes
Every node can service both reads and writes so that you can scale query throughput and database capacity by simply adding more endpoints.
Case study: Scaling for 11 billion documents Guide to scaling your clusterAutomated rebalancing
Just add new nodes to CockroachDB, and it automatically rebalances data, completely removing the pain of manual sharding.
Never shard againHotspot detection
As demand shifts, CockroachDB detects hotspots and intelligently distributes data to maintain performance.
Read the DocsTune geo-distributed queries
Tune your database at the row level so that data lives close to your users and you can minimize query latency no matter where your audience is on the planet.
Improve latencies with table localities