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.
Product
Introducing Value Separation in CockroachDB 25.3 for Improved Performance
Data architects are on the lookout for ways to maximize resources, while also keeping costs predictable and manageable. The right database plays a central role in achieving both – delivering better performance, scalability, and resilience without breaking the budget.
David Bressler
October 23, 2025
Performance
Truly distributed and 5x more resilient - CockroachDB vs Oracle GDD
Oracle is a premier database provider, delivering solutions that cover most every possible permutation of SQL database configuration you can imagine. While complicated and expensive, Oracle has always delivered on its promises… until now.
David Bressler
October 10, 2025
Product
CockroachDB 25.3: PCI and HIPAA readiness on Azure, a new Kubernetes operator, improved Oracle migrations
Even better performance, smoother migrations, and heightened compliance are central to CockroachDB 25.3.
David Bressler
August 12, 2025
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