Baidu needed SQL at massive scale Baidu is a $90B+ internet company serving hundreds of millions of users with web products ranging from search to shopping to cloud storage. Their DBA team needs to support huge volumes of data while meeting the needs of internal application developers. With CockroachDB, Baidu gets a distributed database that scales horizontally while providing the SQL interface application developers are familiar with. CockroachDB now stores information gathered from across the web to drive interactive customer experiences. cockroachlabs.com Challenge Baidu’s DBA team needs to support nearly a billion users accessing applications in production, requiring infrastructure that can support reliable performance at scale. They were relying on MySQL to do the job

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