The Cockroach Labs Blog

In our recent webinar, “From Oracle to CockroachDB: Lessons from Real Migrations”, technical experts Rohan Joshi and Alistair Parry walked through how real-world organizations across industries migrated mission-critical workloads from Oracle to CockroachDB. Through this talk, live demo, and engaging Q&A, the audience learned which Oracle workloads are a great fit for CockroachDB, how to tackle schema conversion and PL/SQL refactoring, and how our MOLT (Migrate Off Legacy Technology) toolset accelerates the process.

Becca Weng

November 13, 2025

Across three continents and hundreds of attendees, our biggest RoachFest yet united a global community of architects, engineers, and innovators who share one goal: building systems that scale without fail.

Becca Weng

November 11, 2025

At Cockroach Labs, we are relentlessly focused on providing a database that is not only powerful and resilient but also fundamentally secure. We’re excited to announce a noteworthy milestone in our commitment to enterprise security and our integration with the Microsoft Azure ecosystem: CockroachDB Cloud now supports Customer-Managed Encryption Keys (CMEK) for Azure, along with Egress Perimeter Controls.

Biplav Saraf

November 5, 2025

As applications scale globally, efficiency and cost control become top priorities. Elastic database tiers let data architects match resources to workload needs, ensuring consistent performance, predictable costs, and simplified operations at any scale.

Rebecca Taft

November 3, 2025

Vector search is the backbone of intelligent AI experiences: semantic search, personalization, recommendations, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). But storing and querying high-dimensional embeddings at scale is only part of the challenge.

David Weiss

October 30, 2025

Building agentic applications means you’re deliberately inviting non-determinism into your system. AI agents’ creativity and adaptability is super powerful, but it’s also dangerous if your data layer isn’t rock solid. The more flexible the top of your stack becomes, the stronger the foundation underneath has to be. This principle is what led me to anchor my agentic stack in CockroachDB.

Kiki Carter

October 28, 2025

Data architects are on the lookout for ways to maximize resources, while also keeping costs predictable and manageable. The right database plays a central role in achieving both – delivering better performance, scalability, and resilience without breaking the budget.

Dipti Joshi

October 23, 2025

Cockroach Labs' RoachFest event series spanned the globe big time in 2025. We traveled from London to Bengaluru, then landed stateside for our Grand Finale: RoachFest Las Vegas!

David Weiss

October 21, 2025

Oracle is a premier database provider, delivering solutions that cover most every possible permutation of SQL database configuration you can imagine. While complicated and expensive, Oracle has always delivered on its promises… until now.

David Bressler

October 10, 2025