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What's virtualized

New name for the virtualized logical concept

Previous terminology

New name for the physical infrastructure 

The CockroachDB cluster service, as a whole

“Virtual cluster”

“Cluster”

N/A: the underlying infrastructure is not visible to end-users any more.

Run-time state for a (virtual) cluster

“Tenant servers/pods”

“Servers/pods”

NEW: “Shared storage /DB servers/pods”

On-disk state for a (virtual) cluster

“Tenant-specific data”

“CockroachDB data”

NEW: “Shared storage /DB data”

new: the virtual cluster used to administer other virtual clusters = system cluster

Beware of the difference between “Shared storage cluster” (deployed system) and “System cluster” (logical cluster an administrator connects to, to create additional virtual clusters)

Ownership (not data)

“Tenant”

“User”

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