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Database Modernization
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Database migrations are complex, and ensuring the migrated data is 100% correct is critical. After all, a migration isn’t over until you feel confident and comfortable cutting over to the new infrastructure. To streamline migrations, Cockroach Labs created the MOLT (Migrate Off Legacy Technology) suite, which includes three tools that improve different parts of the user journey.
Jeremy Yang
April 2, 2025
data migrations
data integrity
Retail & Ecommerce
Orders & Inventory Management
Payments
How 3 retailers achieved data accuracy, availability, and scale
The team at Cockroach Labs has worked with dozens of companies (including Fortune 50 retailers) that use CockroachDB in production today. Here’s three customer stories describing how they use CockroachDB to support mission-critical use cases.
Cassie McAllister
April 1, 2025
Events
“Unlocking Capital Markets Innovation” – NYC Event on 4/10
Modernizing trading infrastructure: It’s an imperative for capital markets firms seeking to maintain their competitive edge in today's fast-evolving financial landscape.
David Weiss
March 31, 2025
Tutorials
How to Leverage Views and Materialized Views in CockroachDB
In modern databases, efficient data access and maintainability are crucial — especially as schemas evolve and queries grow more complex. Views in CockroachDB help bridge this gap by allowing developers to create logical representations of data without altering the underlying tables.
Alex Seriy
March 28, 2025
Database Modernization
Scale & Resilience
Surviving Large-Scale Failures with CockroachDB
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.
Alicia Lu
March 27, 2025
Events
Scale & Resilience
Future-proof your database infrastructure at RoachFest 2025
Cockroach Labs is excited to announce the return of RoachFest, our annual conference for customers and database experts. Since its inception in 2022, RoachFest has brought together architects, DBAs, developers, data leaders, and more to share, collaborate, and innovate on their use of the latest database technologies.
Becca Weng
March 24, 2025
Gambling
High Performance Data: Newton Goes Global with CockroachDB
Innovation is the key to growth, no matter what the industry. Gambling enterprises are hyper aware that they must keep ahead of the curve, as the number of bettors grow – and competition for their attention intensifies – worldwide.
David Weiss
March 21, 2025
Database Modernization
Product
Engineering
Accelerate Data Migrations with MOLT Schema Conversion Tool
Database migration is a critical yet often daunting task for many enterprises that operate on legacy systems like Oracle, MySQL, or SQL Server. As these organizations strive to modernize their infrastructure and scale operations, transitioning to a distributed SQL database like CockroachDB presents a compelling opportunity – offering the consistency and familiar SQL structure of traditional databases while delivering the scalability, resilience, and performance first pioneered in NoSQL databases.
Rohan Joshi
March 19, 2025
Tutorials
How to Set Up Ory Hydra with CockroachDB for Secure, Scalable OAuth 2.0 Authentication
This guide walks you through setting up Ory Hydra with CockroachDB, ensuring that your authentication system is not only secure but also highly available and scalable. Whether you’re a developer looking to implement authentication for a single app or an enterprise seeking a globally distributed solution, this tutorial will help you achieve your goals.
Ben Sherrill
March 18, 2025
Database Modernization
Scale & Resilience
Surviving 11 Application and Database Failures with CockroachDB
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.
Alicia Lu
March 17, 2025