CockroachDB
@cockroachdb.bsky.social
A distributed SQL database designed for speed, scale, & survival.
🪳 Meet CockroachDB: https://cockroa.ch/db
🎓 Learn for free: https://cockroa.ch/u
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🪳 Meet CockroachDB: https://cockroa.ch/db
🎓 Learn for free: https://cockroa.ch/u
🎧 Listen: https://cockroa.ch/cast
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At RoachFest Las Vegas, @kelseyhightower.com will be bringing his perspective to the RoachFest stage!
At RoachFest Las Vegas, @kelseyhightower.com will be bringing his perspective to the RoachFest stage!
Next stops for #RoachFest25? Bengaluru and Las Vegas.
Here’s everything you need to know about our upcoming events: www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/roachfe...
Here’s everything you need to know about our upcoming events: www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/roachfe...
RoachFest 2025: Real resilience from Bengaluru to Las Vegas
RoachFest isn’t your typical tech conference. It’s where builders, engineers, operators, architects, and executives come together to talk about what really happens in production. We’re not talking abo...
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June 26, 2025 at 5:14 PM
One more thing...
At RoachFest Las Vegas, @kelseyhightower.com will be bringing his perspective to the RoachFest stage!
At RoachFest Las Vegas, @kelseyhightower.com will be bringing his perspective to the RoachFest stage!
Next stops for #RoachFest25? Bengaluru and Las Vegas.
Here’s everything you need to know about our upcoming events: www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/roachfe...
Here’s everything you need to know about our upcoming events: www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/roachfe...
RoachFest 2025: Real resilience from Bengaluru to Las Vegas
RoachFest isn’t your typical tech conference. It’s where builders, engineers, operators, architects, and executives come together to talk about what really happens in production. We’re not talking abo...
www.cockroachlabs.com
June 26, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Next stops for #RoachFest25? Bengaluru and Las Vegas.
Here’s everything you need to know about our upcoming events: www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/roachfe...
Here’s everything you need to know about our upcoming events: www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/roachfe...
Introducing CockroachDB 25.2, the most performant, scalable, and secure version of CockroachDB yet.
CockroachDB's 10-Year Release: Vector Indexing, Performance, and More
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 ve...
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June 3, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Introducing CockroachDB 25.2, the most performant, scalable, and secure version of CockroachDB yet.
An inside look at how CockroachDB leverages the Network Time Protocol (NTP) along with software-based compensation techniques to achieve reliable time coordination across database nodes.
www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/clock-m...
www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/clock-m...
Clock Management in CockroachDB: Good Timekeeping is Key
Learn how CockroachDB manages clock synchronization in distributed systems using NTP and software techniques—plus guidance for single and multi-region deployments.
www.cockroachlabs.com
May 2, 2025 at 1:51 PM
An inside look at how CockroachDB leverages the Network Time Protocol (NTP) along with software-based compensation techniques to achieve reliable time coordination across database nodes.
www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/clock-m...
www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/clock-m...
We are excited to announce the 2nd edition of @oreilly.bsky.social's CockroachDB: The Definitive Guide — an in-depth exploration of how our distributed SQL database came to be, and how you can use it to build truly resilient applications.
www.cockroachlabs.com/guides/oreil...
www.cockroachlabs.com/guides/oreil...
O'Reilly | CockroachDB: The Definitive Guide (2nd Edition)
Build scalable, resilient apps with O’Reilly’s CockroachDB: The Definitive Guide. Learn to deploy, optimize, and manage distributed SQL systems at scale.
www.cockroachlabs.com
April 8, 2025 at 2:23 PM
We are excited to announce the 2nd edition of @oreilly.bsky.social's CockroachDB: The Definitive Guide — an in-depth exploration of how our distributed SQL database came to be, and how you can use it to build truly resilient applications.
www.cockroachlabs.com/guides/oreil...
www.cockroachlabs.com/guides/oreil...
🔴 NOW STREAMING: Everything you need to know about primary keys
What makes a good relationship? Primary keys! // SELECT STAR
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March 20, 2025 at 4:29 PM
🔴 NOW STREAMING: Everything you need to know about primary keys
Automated schema translation. Minimal trial-and-error.
Get an inside look at our CockroachDB MOLT Schema Conversion Tool, designed to eliminate the bulk of manual work and dramatically accelerate the migration process.
Get an inside look at our CockroachDB MOLT Schema Conversion Tool, designed to eliminate the bulk of manual work and dramatically accelerate the migration process.
Accelerate Data Migrations with MOLT Schema Conversion Tool
Cockroach Labs’ MOLT Schema Conversion Tool (SCT) accelerates data migration by automating schema translation while minimizing trial-and-error. With SCT, enterprises can confidently transition to Cock...
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March 19, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Automated schema translation. Minimal trial-and-error.
Get an inside look at our CockroachDB MOLT Schema Conversion Tool, designed to eliminate the bulk of manual work and dramatically accelerate the migration process.
Get an inside look at our CockroachDB MOLT Schema Conversion Tool, designed to eliminate the bulk of manual work and dramatically accelerate the migration process.
🔎 An inside look at how our engineering team caught a one-in-a-million bug.
www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/demonic...
www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/demonic...
Antithesis of a One-in-a-Million Bug: Taming Demonic Nondeterminism
With the help of Antithesis, a startup from the founders of FoundationDB, CockroachDB engineers were able to track down and reproduce a most elusive one-in-a-million bug, nearly deterministically!
www.cockroachlabs.com
March 14, 2025 at 4:05 PM
🔎 An inside look at how our engineering team caught a one-in-a-million bug.
www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/demonic...
www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/demonic...
🔴 Greg Turnquist is going live on our YouTube channel at 11am ET to demonstrate how AI tools can speed up your CockroachDB database, make it more performant, and help squeeze out inefficiencies! www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SAj...
Want to speed up your database with AI? // SELECT STAR
YouTube video by CockroachDB
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March 6, 2025 at 2:34 PM
🔴 Greg Turnquist is going live on our YouTube channel at 11am ET to demonstrate how AI tools can speed up your CockroachDB database, make it more performant, and help squeeze out inefficiencies! www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SAj...
A technical read on how to:
✔️ Configure your source and target endpoints
✔️ Set up custom replication slots
✔️ Fine-tune migration tasks to ensure that your existing ETL pipelines remain intact even as you modernize your database architecture.
www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/aws-dms...
✔️ Configure your source and target endpoints
✔️ Set up custom replication slots
✔️ Fine-tune migration tasks to ensure that your existing ETL pipelines remain intact even as you modernize your database architecture.
www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/aws-dms...
Advanced AWS DMS Configuration: Aurora PostgreSQL to CockroachDB Migration for CDC
Explore advanced AWS Data Migration Service (DMS) configuration techniques to seamlessly migrate from Aurora PostgreSQL to CockroachDB. This comprehensive guide covers each step from pre-configuring A...
www.cockroachlabs.com
March 5, 2025 at 6:52 PM
A technical read on how to:
✔️ Configure your source and target endpoints
✔️ Set up custom replication slots
✔️ Fine-tune migration tasks to ensure that your existing ETL pipelines remain intact even as you modernize your database architecture.
www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/aws-dms...
✔️ Configure your source and target endpoints
✔️ Set up custom replication slots
✔️ Fine-tune migration tasks to ensure that your existing ETL pipelines remain intact even as you modernize your database architecture.
www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/aws-dms...
No. You didn't misread the title of this article.
CockroachDB offers easy, no-downtime live schema updates.
www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/how-to-...
CockroachDB offers easy, no-downtime live schema updates.
www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/how-to-...
How to change your database schema with no downtime
Traditionally, updating your SQL database schema once the database is in production has been a pain. But it doesn't have to be. There's a better way!
www.cockroachlabs.com
March 3, 2025 at 8:11 PM
No. You didn't misread the title of this article.
CockroachDB offers easy, no-downtime live schema updates.
www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/how-to-...
CockroachDB offers easy, no-downtime live schema updates.
www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/how-to-...
At Cockroach Labs, a critical part of our software development process is a focus on Quality.
Here's an inside look at how our team triages vulnerabilities and addresses them as part of our daily operational cadence.
www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/vulnera...
Here's an inside look at how our team triages vulnerabilities and addresses them as part of our daily operational cadence.
www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/vulnera...
Preventing the Breach: Vulnerability Management at Cockroach Labs
Many customers approach the Cockroach Labs Account teams and the security and compliance teams with questions around vulnerabilities their preferred security scanners have identified. This blog post l...
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February 28, 2025 at 2:47 PM
At Cockroach Labs, a critical part of our software development process is a focus on Quality.
Here's an inside look at how our team triages vulnerabilities and addresses them as part of our daily operational cadence.
www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/vulnera...
Here's an inside look at how our team triages vulnerabilities and addresses them as part of our daily operational cadence.
www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/vulnera...
In our latest release, we are focused on improving performance and resilience while helping your organization bring down the costs that come with database ownership.
Get an inside look at CockroachDB 25.1 ⤵️ www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/cockroa...
Get an inside look at CockroachDB 25.1 ⤵️ www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/cockroa...
CockroachDB 25.1: Enhanced resilience and performance
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...
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February 18, 2025 at 1:53 PM
In our latest release, we are focused on improving performance and resilience while helping your organization bring down the costs that come with database ownership.
Get an inside look at CockroachDB 25.1 ⤵️ www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/cockroa...
Get an inside look at CockroachDB 25.1 ⤵️ www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/cockroa...
Our Co-Founder and CEO Spencer Kimball joined @quinnypig.com on the Last Week in AWS podcast to discuss the current state of resilience.
🎧 Give it a listen and subscribe at cockroa.ch/3Bd13Zi
🎧 Give it a listen and subscribe at cockroa.ch/3Bd13Zi
Looking at the Current State of Resilience with Spencer Kimball
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December 13, 2024 at 2:16 PM
Our Co-Founder and CEO Spencer Kimball joined @quinnypig.com on the Last Week in AWS podcast to discuss the current state of resilience.
🎧 Give it a listen and subscribe at cockroa.ch/3Bd13Zi
🎧 Give it a listen and subscribe at cockroa.ch/3Bd13Zi
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When it comes to creating natural conversations with chatbots, context is key. Pinecone built this GenAI chatbot example with CockroachDB to store the user-based conversational context and history.
💻 Go deeper into the architecture: https://www.pinecone.io/learn/javascript-chatbot
When it comes to creating natural conversations with chatbots, context is key. Pinecone built this GenAI chatbot example with CockroachDB to store the user-based conversational context and history.
💻 Go deeper into the architecture: https://www.pinecone.io/learn/javascript-chatbot
Building a Multi-User Chatbot with Langchain and Pinecone in Next.JS
In this example, we’ll imagine that our chatbot needs to answer questions about the content of a website. To do that, we’ll need a way to store and access that information when the chatbot generat...
www.pinecone.io
July 7, 2023 at 2:38 PM
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When it comes to creating natural conversations with chatbots, context is key. Pinecone built this GenAI chatbot example with CockroachDB to store the user-based conversational context and history.
💻 Go deeper into the architecture: https://www.pinecone.io/learn/javascript-chatbot
When it comes to creating natural conversations with chatbots, context is key. Pinecone built this GenAI chatbot example with CockroachDB to store the user-based conversational context and history.
💻 Go deeper into the architecture: https://www.pinecone.io/learn/javascript-chatbot
TLDR: Follower reads are our implementation of stale reads.
For CockroachDB users aiming to get good performance from databases accessed from multiple geographical regions, this is an essential read. https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/follower-reads-stale-data/
For CockroachDB users aiming to get good performance from databases accessed from multiple geographical regions, this is an essential read. https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/follower-reads-stale-data/
An epic read on follower reads
Sometimes, reading stale data is ok — preferred, even. Let's look at "follower reads" (aka "stale reads"), a technique for getting good performance from a database accessed from multiple geographic...
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July 5, 2023 at 6:23 PM
TLDR: Follower reads are our implementation of stale reads.
For CockroachDB users aiming to get good performance from databases accessed from multiple geographical regions, this is an essential read. https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/follower-reads-stale-data/
For CockroachDB users aiming to get good performance from databases accessed from multiple geographical regions, this is an essential read. https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/follower-reads-stale-data/
❓“What do you think of the name CockroachDB?” 🪳
We asked some of our customers this question backstage at #RoachFest22.
After hearing what they had to say about #CockroachDB’s resiliency, we’re feeling pretty good about our naming decision.
We asked some of our customers this question backstage at #RoachFest22.
After hearing what they had to say about #CockroachDB’s resiliency, we’re feeling pretty good about our naming decision.
What do you think of the name CockroachDB?
Watch some of our customers explain how they feel about the name CockroachDB. For years we've received extremely polarizing (unsolicited) feedback on the nam...
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July 1, 2023 at 11:12 PM
❓“What do you think of the name CockroachDB?” 🪳
We asked some of our customers this question backstage at #RoachFest22.
After hearing what they had to say about #CockroachDB’s resiliency, we’re feeling pretty good about our naming decision.
We asked some of our customers this question backstage at #RoachFest22.
After hearing what they had to say about #CockroachDB’s resiliency, we’re feeling pretty good about our naming decision.