Section 2: Exploring the Important Features of CockroachDB

In this section, we will go over several important features of CockroachDB. This should give you a better insight with respect to when to use CockroachDB as a datastore.

This section comprises the following chapters:

• Chapter 3, Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, and Durability (ACID)
• Chapter 4, Geo-Partitioning
• Chapter 5, Fault Tolerance and Auto-Rebalancing
• Chapter 6, How Indexes Work in CockroachDB