CockroachDB Serverless: Sub-second Scaling from Zero with Multi-region Cluster Virtualization
Summary: Two-tier CockroachDB splits SQL and KV into separate processes to enable independent scaling for multi-tenant, multi-region serverless workloads. Production deployment since 2022 achieves scaling-to-zero, sub-second cold starts, and strong data and performance isolation. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Jeff Swenson (Cockroach Labs)
- 2. Andy Kimball (Cockroach Labs)
- 3. Raphael 'kena' Poss (Cockroach Labs)
- 4. Rebecca Taft (Cockroach Labs)
- 5. Jay Lim (Cockroach Labs)
- 6. Adam Storm (Cockroach Labs)
- 7. Sumeer Bhola (Cockroach Labs)
- 8. Paul Bulkley-Logston (Cockroach Labs)
- 9. PJ Tatlow (Cockroach Labs)
- 10. Rachael Harding (Cockroach Labs)
- 11. Rafi Shamim (Cockroach Labs)
- 12. Aditya Maru (Blacksmith Software Inc.)
- 13. Irfan Sharif (Modal Labs)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{swenson_sigmod25,
title = {{CockroachDB Serverless: Sub-second Scaling from Zero with Multi-region Cluster Virtualization}},
author = {Swenson, Jeff and Kimball, Andy and Poss, Raphael 'kena' and Taft, Rebecca and Lim, Jay and Storm, Adam and Bhola, Sumeer and Bulkley-Logston, Paul and Tatlow, PJ and Harding, Rachael and Shamim, Rafi and Maru, Aditya and Sharif, Irfan},
series = {{SIGMOD} '25},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/3722212.3724432},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3722212.3724432},
year = {2025}
}
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