EP 30: Ranges: The Building Block of Everything

Saying CockroachDB “just shards data” is a serious understatement. Under the hood, it uses powerful mechanisms to deliver resilience and consistency—while also giving you control over data placement for compliance, performance, and more.In this episode of SELECT STAR, discover the core mechanism that enables CockroachDB to scale without sacrificing ACID guarantees.========Want to try CockroachDB?Get started here:https://learn.cockroachlabs.com========Also see 👀Episode link 1Episode link 2Don’t miss the podcast!Find SELECT STAR on your favorite podcast platformAbout the hostsGreg L. Turnquist spent over thirteen years on the Spring team before joining Cockroach Labs as a Technical Content Engineer. He led Spring Data JPA and Spring Web Services, contributed across the Spring ecosystem, and authored multiple books including Learning Spring Boot and 12 Rules for Pro Coders.Felipe Gutierrez brings 25+ years of experience as a Spring and RabbitMQ advocate, consultant, and instructor. He has authored several Apress titles including Pro Spring Boot, Spring Boot Messaging, and Pro Spring Cloud Data Flow.About Cockroach LabsCockroach Labs builds resilient, scalable database solutions for mission-critical workloads. Its cloud-native distributed SQL database, CockroachDB, helps organizations scale when others fail.© 2026 Cockroach Labs, Inc.