CockroachDB + ActiveRecord (and Ruby on Rails!)

Since initially publishing their post in 2017, Cockroach Labs has completed full support for Active Record and now fully supports Common Table Expressions. The company aims to make CockroachDB a user-friendly, scalable, and robust SQL database, which led them to provide support for popular ORMs like ActiveRecord, the ORM behind Ruby on Rails. While initially facing challenges due to the PostgreSQL wire protocol, the company adopted a hybrid approach by creating a lightweight ActiveRecord adapter gem, which extends from the existing Postgres adapter to modify unsupported features such as Common Table Expressions. This gem allows Rails users to utilize CockroachDB as their backend database with minimal configuration changes, and Cockroach Labs encourages developers to provide feedback to further improve the integration.

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