--- title: Best CockroachDB posts of 2022 | daily.dev description: The most upvoted CockroachDB posts of 2022, curated by the daily.dev community. canonical: https://daily.dev/tags/cockroachdb/best-of/2022 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:url: https://daily.dev/tags/cockroachdb/best-of/2022 og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Best CockroachDB posts of 2022 | daily.dev og:description: The most upvoted CockroachDB posts of 2022, curated by the daily.dev community. og:image: https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--VAY5ToZt--/f_auto/v1724209435/public/daily.dev%20-%20open%20graph --- # Best of CockroachDB — 2022 1. 1 [](/posts/sql-performance-best-practices-1pu22cul6 "SQL Performance Best Practices") Article CockroachDB · 4y SQL Performance Best Practices A distributed database can distribute the query and most of the work of the sort operation, but can’t reduce the workload without using an index. This index is ordered by email, enabling the server to isolate only the user’s messages, and ignore the other 999,000 in the table. It still has 3 stages, but when you take a closer look, the scan stage only touches 1,000 rows. 119 4 2. 2 [](/posts/side-by-side-comparison-of-serverless-databases-w5ggr9hp6 "Side-by-side comparison of serverless databases") Article Fauna · 4y Side-by-side comparison of serverless databases Serverless databases make it easy to build and scale your application because they abstract away the underlying infrastructure and automatically scale to meet the need of your application. With MongoDB, you don’t have to manage any infrastructure by yourself. This article compares commonly used serverless databases so you can make an informed decision. 49 6 3. 3 [](/posts/building-a-payments-system-that-scales-to-infinity-with-examples--qjcplpp06 "Building a Payments System That Scales to Infinity (With Examples)") Article CockroachDB · 4y Building a Payments System That Scales to Infinity (With Examples) Payments often don’t matter much beyond the 60-90 seconds during which a payment transaction takes place. Storing all of this data and keeping it available without bogging down your application can be. CockroachDB allows table- and row-level data homing, making it easy to assign rows to specific geographic regions. 40 4. 4 [](/posts/cockroachdb-serverless-free-forever-seriously--2hggtud8 "CockroachDB Serverless: Free Forever. Seriously.") Article CockroachDB · 4y CockroachDB Serverless: Free Forever. Seriously. CockroachDB serverless charges you only for the actual data storage and activity of your cluster. 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