Comparing Latency: CockroachDB vs Azure Cosmos DB

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Does CockroachDB or Azure Cosmos DB have faster read/write latency? In this series, Cockroach Labs Technical Evangelist Rob Reid compares read and write latencies in distributed SQL database CockroachDB to the many available cloud service provider databases on the market. Watch the full video to see how CockroachDB compares to Azure Cosmos DB in terms of latency. 📖 Recommended additional reading: ✔️ Synchronous and asynchronous database replication explained (& how data gets lost) https://cockroa.ch/3Sfk4Am ✔️ CockroachDB's multi-region capabilities (Including how to understand primary and secondary regions and our topology patterns) https://cockroa.ch/3QtS9v8 00:00 Introduction 00:28 A recap of the results of CockroachDB vs Aurora 00:50 A recap of the results of CockroachDB vs Cloud Spanner 01:20 Setting up the test for Azure Cosmos DB 01:45 An explanation of the global database topology 02:09 Deploying the fly.io demo application 02:55 Read/write latencies from the London Cosmos DB region 03:15 Setting up the demo for a United States based user 04:41 Read latencies and write latencies from the US 05:50 Low latency for local writes but high latency for read latencies against read replicas? 05:59 Is CosmosDB suited for real time transactional data? 06:37 Suggestions for low latency in Cosmos DB 06:59 How does Azure Cosmos DB compare to CockroachDB?