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Product
CockroachDB v26.1: Going Deep on Security and Compliance for our Most Demanding Customers
Enterprise security is a key factor in reducing cost-of-ownership and getting new solutions into production efficiently. With CockroachDB v26.1, available as of February 3rd in CockroachDB Cloud and February 18th for CockroachDB self-hosted, we are introducing security improvements that help organizations integrate CockroachDB more seamlessly with their existing security infrastructure.

David Bressler
February 3, 2026
Banking & Fintech
RoachFest
Why these three fintech companies scaled with distributed SQL
From retail investing and global card payments to large-scale lending, fintech platforms are being pushed to their limits. User expectations are rising, regulations are tightening, and transaction volumes are growing faster and more unpredictably than ever before. Across these domains, one theme is emerging clearly: traditional databases struggle to keep up with modern financial workloads at scale.

Becca Weng
February 2, 2026
ai
Scale & Resilience
Database Modernization
1,000+ tech leaders know AI is scaling faster than systems can adapt
Before AI workloads entered production en masse, infrastructural resilience was already key to mission-critical applications. But in 2026, resilience alone won’t be enough. The real challenge, one that’s already reshaping engineering priorities and strategic business initiatives is resilience at scale.

Becca Weng
January 29, 2026
Banking & Wallet
Rethinking the Global Reporting Platform
Data doesn’t just serve the business anymore. Data is the business. Every transaction, every decision, every customer experience depends on having timely, trustworthy insight – not weekly, not daily, but continuously.
Alex Seriy
January 28, 2026
ai
Scale & Resilience
Engineering
Vehicle Search with SQL and Vector Embeddings
"I'll know it when I see it" is the classic car buyer's line, but it's also the one thing old-school search bars totally fail to deliver. Traditional keyword search fails when a customer wants a car that "looks like this photo from Fast and Furious." This is where vector search comes in, transforming unstructured data into mathematical vectors to find semantically similar items.

Alejandro Infanzon
January 27, 2026
Banking & Fintech
ai
Product
How to Simulate Resilient, Real-Time Anomaly Detection with CockroachDB and Kafka
When it comes to real-time applications, resilience isn't a nice-to-have, it’s a necessity. In this post, we’ll walk through a live demo designed to stress-test CockroachDB’s ability to detect anomalies in a stream of financial transactions. Along the way, we’ll simulate production traffic, observe latency under load, and scale our detection pipeline on the fly.

Rob Reid
January 26, 2026
Distributed SQL
Database Modernization
MOLT: A Toolkit for Migrations You Can Trust
Migrating a database is always a high-stakes operation. Downtime, data correctness, data loss, and customer experience are all on the line. Not to mention the business risk if a migration goes poorly. While there are a number of third-party tools that support data migration to CockroachDB, we have the expertise and insights into our product. We knew we could make migrations as efficient as possible in-house.

Becca Weng
January 21, 2026
Scale & Resilience
ai
Why Agentic AI is Outrunning Your Database (and How to Catch Up FAST)
Over the past year, it’s become increasingly clear that the most consequential change in AI isn’t happening in models — it’s happening in volume. As agentic systems move from experimentation into production and autonomy, autonomous activity is beginning to rival, and poised to exceed, human-driven traffic across the internet. That shift changes the economics and the physics of software.

Jeff Cotrupe
January 20, 2026
The Top Alternatives to Oracle and Amazon Aurora for Cloud-Scale Workloads
Oracle and Amazon Aurora continue to power many mission-critical applications. As cloud-scale workloads evolve, however, the definition of "enterprise-ready" has fundamentally shifted.

David Weiss
January 16, 2026
