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From Day One, our goal has been to bring together the benefits of both SQL and NoSQL, using a cloud-native, distributed architecture. But what we have accomplished for our customers over the past 10 years is only the beginning.

Spencer Kimball

February 18, 2025

In the world of finance, changing databases is usually pretty rare. When you’re in charge of other people’s money — several trillion dollars of it, in the case of one of the banks discussed in this article — even small changes could represent major risks. That’s why even today, many banks still run systems based on legacy relational databases such as Oracle, IBM, and PostgreSQL — often the same databases they were using 10 or even 20 years ago.

Cassie McAllister

January 16, 2025

Before we begin a comparison blog post about PostgreSQL, we must first acknowledging that it is one of the most reliable and widely used databases in the history of software. The world owes a debt of gratitude to the open source community that has built and supported this important project for the last 35 years. In this post, we unpack some of the architectural differences between PostgreSQL and CockroachDB. We’ll point out where the limitations of single server, single instance architecture might pose challenges for modern cloud infrastructure, and how a distributed foundation can be a better solution for your apps and services.

Cassie McAllister

January 6, 2025

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

We are excited to introduce Logical Data Replication (LDR) in Preview in the 24.3 release of CockroachDB. LDR enables data replication between CockroachDB clusters and enables both clusters to actively receive traffic during replication.

Alicia Lu

November 26, 2024

We have invested in building two cross-cluster replication tools: physical cluster replication (PCR; Generally Available in 24.1) and logical data replication (LDR; Preview in 24.3). These cross-cluster replication tools will enable you to achieve regional resiliency, low single-region write latency, and survive entire cluster outages when deploying your applications on CockroachDB.

Alicia Lu

November 21, 2024

Finding the balance between resilience, scale, governance, and performance is hard – and that’s where Cockroach Labs excels. With the release of CockroachDB 24.3 we continue to make important strides on all these fronts, improving resilience and performance, while adding enterprise capabilities like support of Microsoft’s Active Directory and database triggers.

David Bressler

November 19, 2024

Black Friday and Cyber Monday are like the Superbowl for retailers. Instead of point spreads, though, e-commerce companies are betting on peak sales numbers. But while the deluge of deals evokes dreams of dollars for CEOs, the surging site traffic can be more of a nightmare for CTOs. The onslaught of shoppers puts huge amounts of stress on their application architecture. In this scenario, even a minor problem with inventory management can cause major consequences.

Charlie Custer

November 7, 2024

Reduced prices in compute for CockroachDB Cloud Standard and Advanced plans. Only pay for what you use in data transfer, backups, and changefeeds.

Andy Woods

November 1, 2024