CockroachDB is built to prevent systemic breakdowns by isolating failures, automating recovery, and maintaining consistency across environments. In this blog, we’ll explore how CockroachDB helps organizations build resilient architectures that keep applications running smoothly—even in the face of unexpected disruptions.

Andy Woods

March 27, 2025

In this 3-part series, “Surviving Failures with CockroachDB,” we’ll explore the most common failure scenarios affecting modern applications and databases — and, more importantly, how CockroachDB helps prevent, contain, and recover from them. In this first post, we’ll cover common application and database failures.

Andy Woods

March 17, 2025

Reduced prices in compute for CockroachDB Cloud Standard and Advanced plans. Only pay for what you use in data transfer, backups, and changefeeds.

Andy Woods

November 1, 2024

After choosing CockroachDB as your next-generation storage system, you may wonder, “How do we move our organization’s data into CockroachDB?”

Andy Woods

July 18, 2024

Slow applications kill business. Greg Lindon (in this now archived deck), noted that 100ms in latency lowered Amazon’s sales by 1%. Marissa Mayer pointed out that speed really matters when she explained the results of A/B tests as “500ms of additional load time dropped Google searches by 20%.”

Andy Woods

May 20, 2021

CockroachDB is a reliable, relational database, built to help you scale your transactional workloads in the cloud. Our focus on common relational data types has brought bulletproof resilience and effortless scalability to all sorts of customer applications, from customer service applications to global data stores for cloud-connected devices, to streaming video providers. Today, we’re excited to bring that same bulletproof resilience and effortless scale to new use cases: spatial data types in CockroachDB. The same open-source database you use to store and access common relational data types (e.g., INT, TEXT, UUID) can now be used with GEOMETRY and GEOGRAPHY spatial data types. And best of all, it’s free.

Andy Woods

April 30, 2021

Whether you’re a developer or operator, we want to give you the observability tools you need to monitor your CockroachDB cluster. This includes standard tools such as logs, metrics like Prometheus and health endpoints, and alerting. But modern observability requires more than just the standard tools.

Andy Woods

January 26, 2021

CockroachDB’s 20.1 release supports lateral joins, which can dramatically reduce the lines of code needed to arrive at key business analytics. Today, I’m going to walk you through a demo of lateral joins and showcase how you might use them to run analytic queries directly in CockroachDB.

Andy Woods

July 16, 2020

CockroachDB offers a number of features aimed at making it easy to support your application in multiple regions. In CockroachDB 20.1, we introduced a new feature Online Primary Key Changes that allows you to upgrade your application from a single-region to multi-region with zero downtime. We wrote a bit recently about the technical challenges involved in building online primary key changes and in this blog post, we'll walk through some of the use cases and benefits the feature can lead to.

Andy Woods

June 11, 2020