David Bressler
Staff Product Marketing ManagerDavid is a Staff Product Marketer for Cockroach Labs. He has worked in 26 countries and is an accomplished public speaker. David graduated with distinction with an MBA from NYU. David is also an accomplished athlete, expedition cave and shipwreck diver, and a two-time medalist in the 1989 World Maccabiah Games in Israel.
Artificial Intelligence
Database Modernization
Product
Introducing Distributed Vector Indexing to CockroachDB
With the 25.2 release we deliver vector indexing to further enable customers to combine transactional data with vector data into a single data store, all without compromising the underlying fundamental promises of distributed SQL.
David Bressler
June 4, 2025
Engineering
Product
Artificial Intelligence
CockroachDB 25.2: Celebrating a decade of innovation with enhanced performance, vector indexing, and more
A few months ago Cockroach Labs turned 10, and this release celebrates 10 years of continuous distributed SQL innovation. We’re introducing even more performance and scalability improvements and AI vector indexing, along with many other new features and enhancements to both self-hosted and cloud offerings in the areas of change data capture (CDC), security, observability, and migrations.
David Bressler
June 3, 2025
Database Modernization
Scale & Resilience
What is Application Modernization?
What is application modernization? That’s officially an FAQ on the Internet. Here at Cockroach Labs, what people frequently ask us is a little more specific: What does Application Modernization have to do with databases?
David Bressler
February 25, 2025
Product
Scale & Resilience
CockroachDB 25.1: Enhanced resilience and performance
Performance improvements are critical, not only for the scope and scale of applications, but also because increasing performance drives down the cost of ownership – and that’s where Cockroach Labs has focused on in this new release.
David Bressler
February 18, 2025
SQL
Scale & Resilience
“PostgreSQL Compatible Databases”: A Tale of Two Approaches
It’s a tale of two approaches to turn PostgreSQL into a distributed SQL database solution: forking PostgreSQL or rewriting the SQL layer in a compatible way. This has resulted in a common talking point: If a vendor forks PostgreSQL are they inherently more PostgreSQL compatible?
David Bressler
December 17, 2024
Product
Scale & Resilience
Introducing WAL Failover
With CockroachDB release 24.3 we are introducing write-ahead log (WAL) failover, a solution for transient disk stalls commonly seen in cloud storage. During a disk stall, the underlying storage is not available, adding application latency. While we can’t prevent disk stalls, WAL failover helps minimize their impact on CockroachDB instances.
David Bressler
December 6, 2024
Product
Scale & Resilience
CockroachDB 24.3: Enhanced resilience and a simplified self-service trial
Finding the balance between resilience, scale, governance, and performance is hard – and that’s where Cockroach Labs excels. With the release of CockroachDB 24.3 we continue to make important strides on all these fronts, improving resilience and performance, while adding enterprise capabilities like support of Microsoft’s Active Directory and database triggers.
David Bressler
November 19, 2024