SELECT STAR

About SELECT STAR

Welcome to SELECT STAR, the show where you learn absolutely everything about the database you just can’t kill! Want the video podcast? * https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_QaflmEF2e8MlTvSR0Iq8yAUcJzlKPSI * https://open.spotify.com/show/6Pyh9Ki2pEJ6KH1EYiZjNw For the audio version, listen on your favorite platform! Get more! * https://cockroachlabs.com * https://youtube.com/@CockroachDB

Publisher

Cockroach Labs

Category

technology

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

24 Sept 2024

Latest episode

14 May 2026

Latest episodes

30 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   14 May 2026

   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 (https://learn.cockroachlabs.com/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=select_star) ======== Also see 👀 Episode link 1 (https://youtube.com/live/squwM1_rDYA?feature=share) Episode link 2 (https://youtube.com/live/yP-3tV0QiuM?feature=share) Don’t miss the podcast! Find SELECT STAR on your favorite podcast platform (https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/select-star-show/) About the hosts Greg 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 Labs Cockroach 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.

2. 

   7 May 2026

   EP 29: Where Does Your Data Live?

   CockroachDB stores your data across a distributed system for resilience and protection. But where does it go—and how does it know how to survive server failures, regional outages, and more? In this episode of SELECT STAR, explore a core building block that helps CockroachDB understand and adapt to your system’s topology. ======== Want to try CockroachDB? Get started here: https://learn.cockroachlabs.com (https://learn.cockroachlabs.com/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=select_star) ======== Also see 👀 Episode link 1 (https://youtube.com/live/squwM1_rDYA?feature=share) Episode link 2 (https://youtube.com/live/yP-3tV0QiuM?feature=share) Don’t miss the podcast! Find SELECT STAR on your favorite podcast platform (https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/select-star-show/) About the hosts Greg 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 Labs Cockroach 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.

3. 

   30 Apr 2026

   EP 28: Read Local, Think Global - Your Key to Effective Data Management

   In a distributed system, the answer to your query might be halfway around the world. So how do you handle that cost when you need results fast? In this episode of SELECT STAR, discover practical ways to “beat the system” and get low-latency answers—even when your data lives on another continent. ======== Want to try CockroachDB? Get started here: https://learn.cockroachlabs.com (https://learn.cockroachlabs.com/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=select_star) ======== Also see 👀 Episode link 1 (https://youtube.com/live/squwM1_rDYA?feature=share) Episode link 2 (https://youtube.com/live/yP-3tV0QiuM?feature=share) Don’t miss the podcast! Find SELECT STAR on your favorite podcast platform (https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/select-star-show/) About the hosts Greg 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 Labs Cockroach 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.

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YouTube views

1,316,972

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

1 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 58 / 100

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Quality

79

Social presence

0

YouTube

93

Engagement

0

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