Case Study: Tracking a Viral Infection Requires a Distributed Database

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Cockroach Labs sponsored this post. Last year, the German government sponsored a hackathon to deal with the emerging COVID-19 crisis.

Not only is this manual documentation method inefficient and unreliable, it also significantly slows down the process of tracking the virus.

This means that as you add nodes, you scale both reads and writes which would ensure that Quarano is performant.

This helps Quarano meet latency requirements by keeping data close to its users, and it would also help with regulatory compliance that may require data to reside in a particular geographic jurisdiction.

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