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I’ve long extolled the benefits of CockroachDB and its ability to horizontally scale for reads and writes. I’ll frequently contrast it with databases that require their users to manually shard in order to achieve scale. To avoid being disingenuous, I decided to put my money where my mouth is and give it a go myself.

Rob Reid

May 2, 2024

Metadata management is a critical part of any business application. Let’s take a quick look at what metadata is, why it’s important, and how you can architect your application to ensure highly available, consistent metadata at scale.

Charlie Custer

Apr 30, 2024

Netflix and other innovators are headlining RoachFest 2024, the event series from distributed SQL database CockroachDB. Attend in Menlo Park, London and NYC.

PostgreSQL has more than 35 years of active development under its belt making it one of the most powerful and reliable relational database management systems (RDBMS). Even today it’s the fourth most popular database in the world, backed by a global community of dedicated supporters. It’s a good fit for business critical workloads because PostgreSQL delivers a highly stable foundation and is ACID compliant. This is also why it’s often used in financial services and for use cases that handle money.

Cassie McAllister

Apr 23, 2024

Fortune 50 finserv companies, fortune 100 SaaS companies, and fortune 300 logistics companies have migrated workloads from Oracle to CockroachDB.

This blog explores how to leverage CockroachDB as an OLTP database and BigQuery for OLAP, and then further enhance data capabilities using BigQueryML and Vertex AI for machine learning.

Harsh Shah

Apr 9, 2024