CockroachDB Glossary

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AWS Lambda

What is AWS Lambda? AWS Lambda is Amazon Web Services’s …

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Cloud API

What is a cloud API? An API, or Application Programming …

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Serverless Architecture

At first glance, it sounds impossible – how can any …

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Serverless Cluster

In the context of discussions of serverless databases, you …

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Serverless Database

What is a serverless database? A serverless database is any …

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Burst Capacity

What is Burst Capacity? In the context of CockroachDB …

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Compute

What is compute (in the context of serverless)? “Compute” is …

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Edge Computing

What is Edge Computing? The term edge computing refers to …

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Multi-Tenant Architecture

What is Multi-Tenant Architecture? Multi-tenant architecture …

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Request Units

What are Request Units? Request Units (RUs) measure the …

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Serverless Framework

The term serverless framework can refer to two different …

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Serverless Functions

What are serverless functions? Serverless functions are any …

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Serverless REST API

What is a REST API? A REST API is an API that meets the …

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Serverless SQL

What is Serverless SQL? Serverless SQL is an alternative way …

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Serverless Step Functions

What are Serverless Step Functions? Step Function is a …

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SQL API

What is a SQL API? A SQL API is simply an API, or …

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