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SELECT STAR Video Spotlight: A Happy Place for Devs and Data
Query detective? Training junky? Lead developer? All that and much more describes Greg Turnquist, who hosts the Cockroach Labs video and podcast series SELECT STAR.
David Weiss
July 17, 2025
Introducing Buffered Writes in CockroachDB
In exploring ways to improve transaction throughput performance for CockroachDB we have introduced buffered writes, in preview. Before buffered writes, each step that included a read or write would read or write from the leaseholder. Since the leaseholder is not always local, this communication could incur network round trips and serial execution of each statement.
David Bressler
July 15, 2025
Database Modernization
Identity Access Management (IAM)
When Teleport & CockroachDB Powered Global Tier 0 Access Management
In large-scale, security-sensitive enterprises particularly in finance, access infrastructure isn’t just another service — it’s a critical foundation.
Amine El Kouhen, Ph.D.
July 10, 2025
Security
You Shall Not Pass: Fine Grained Access Control with Row Level Security
Controlling who can access what data is more important than ever as organizations scale and modernize their data infrastructure.
Dikshant Adhikari
July 9, 2025
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Banking & Fintech
Payments
Top 5 financial services use cases for CockroachDB
The team at Cockroach Labs has worked with dozens of companies (including Fortune 50 banks) that use CockroachDB to support the following initiatives and use cases.
Cassie McAllister
July 8, 2025
Security
Artificial Intelligence
Fraud Detection at Scale with CockroachDB & AWS AI
In the arms race against financial fraud, milliseconds matter.
Amine El Kouhen, Ph.D.
July 7, 2025
Identity Access Management (IAM)
RBAC to the Future: Role-Based Access in GCP, AWS, and Azure
In Back to the Future, messing with the wrong wires could change the timeline. In cloud infrastructure, messing with the wrong permissions can do just as much damage. That’s why Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) is a cornerstone of secure, scalable platform design.
Vishal Jaishankar
June 27, 2025
Events
Scale & Resilience
RoachFest 2025: Real-world resilience from Bengaluru to Las Vegas
Following an electrifying first event in London, RoachFest heads to two more global innovation hubs: Bengaluru and Las Vegas. Each event offers a unique lens on what it means to build and run distributed applications in the real world — where scale is unpredictable, uptime is non-negotiable, and performance is expected under pressure.
Becca Weng
June 25, 2025
Database Modernization
Artificial Intelligence
Vector Search Meets Distributed SQL: A New Blueprint for AI-Ready Data
If you're building AI features into your applications, you're probably arriving at the same crossroads as everyone else: “Do I add another database to my stack, or find a way to make my existing infrastructure work smarter?”
David Weiss
June 24, 2025
Engineering
Artificial Intelligence
Product
Real-Time Indexing for Billions of Vectors: How we built fast, fresh vector indexing at scale in CockroachDB
Read on to learn how we combined recent academic research with practical engineering to solve the semantic search problem at massive scale, with fresh, real-time results, by leveraging CockroachDB’s unique distributed architecture.
Andy Kimball
June 23, 2025
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