Chapter 4: Geo-Partitioning
In the Chapter 3, Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, and Durability (ACID), we learned about what ACID is, why we need it, and how it's supported in CockroachDB. Here, we will learn all about geo-partitioning. Geo-partitioning is one of the most important reasons why you will want to use a distributed SQL database such as CockroachDB.
In this chapter, you will get a basic understanding of what geo-partitioning is and why this feature is useful for you. We will also go over some cloud jargon and some of the options provided by various cloud providers to distribute your data geographically for better resiliency, performance, and availability. At the end of the chapter, we will go over different ways of geo-partitioning your data in CockroachDB.
The following topics will be covered in this chapter:
- Introduction to geo-partitioning
- Cloud regions and zones
- Geo-partitioning in CockroachDB