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CockroachDB — Benchmarks

Scope

Performance characteristics, scaling limits, and resource consumption for CockroachDB.

TPC-C Performance

Nodes vCPUs/Node Warehouses TPS Efficiency
3 4 500 2,000 80%
9 16 5,000 15,000 85%
81 16 50,000 120,000 90%

Latency Characteristics

Operation Same Zone Cross Zone Cross Region
Point read 1-2ms 2-5ms 50-200ms
Point write 5-10ms 10-20ms 100-300ms
Range scan (100 rows) 5-15ms 10-30ms 100-500ms

Scaling Limits

Dimension Limit Notes
Cluster size 500+ nodes Tested by Cockroach Labs
Database size 100TB+ Linear scaling with nodes
Concurrent connections 10,000+ per node Connection pooling recommended
Transaction size 64MB kv.transaction.max_intents_bytes