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With the 25.2 release we deliver vector indexing to further enable customers to combine transactional data with vector data into a single data store, all without compromising the underlying fundamental promises of distributed SQL.

David Bressler

June 4, 2025

A few months ago Cockroach Labs turned 10, and this release celebrates 10 years of continuous distributed SQL innovation. We’re introducing even more performance and scalability improvements and AI vector indexing, along with many other new features and enhancements to both self-hosted and cloud offerings in the areas of change data capture (CDC), security, observability, and migrations.

David Bressler

June 3, 2025

So you were worried about a failure, and it happened. Despite all of the planning, something went wrong, and now the goal is to minimize the impact of that failure. As part of our blog series, “Surviving Failures with CockroachDB,” this blog will cover what your options are when things inevitably fail.

Alicia Lu

April 9, 2025

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) toolkit, which includes three tools that improve different parts of the user journey.

Jeremy Yang

April 2, 2025

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

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

Performance improvements are critical, not only for the scope and scale of applications, but also because increasing performance drives down the cost of ownership – and that’s where Cockroach Labs has focused on in this new release.

David Bressler

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 acknowledge 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