The Cockroach Labs Blog

PostgreSQL has almost 40 years of active development under its belt making it one of the most powerful and reliable relational database management systems (RDBMS). Even today it’s the fourth most popular database in the world, backed by a global community of dedicated supporters. It’s a good fit for business critical workloads because PostgreSQL delivers a highly stable foundation and is ACID compliant. This is also why it’s often used in financial services and for use cases that handle money.

Cassie McAllister

July 21, 2025

Query detective? Training junky? Lead developer? All that and much more describes Greg Turnquist, who hosts the Cockroach Labs video and podcast series SELECT STAR.

David Weiss

July 17, 2025

In large-scale, security-sensitive enterprises particularly in finance, access infrastructure isn’t just another service — it’s a critical foundation.

Amine El Kouhen, Ph.D.

July 10, 2025

Controlling who can access what data is more important than ever as organizations scale and modernize their data infrastructure.

Dikshant Adhikari

July 9, 2025

The team at Cockroach Labs has worked with dozens of companies (including Fortune 50 banks) that use CockroachDB to support the following initiatives and use cases.

Cassie McAllister

July 8, 2025

In the arms race against financial fraud, milliseconds matter.

Amine El Kouhen, Ph.D.

July 7, 2025

In Back to the Future, messing with the wrong wires could change the timeline. In cloud infrastructure, messing with the wrong permissions can do just as much damage. That’s why Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) is a cornerstone of secure, scalable platform design.

Vishal Jaishankar

June 27, 2025

Following an electrifying first event in London, RoachFest heads to two more global innovation hubs: Bengaluru and Las Vegas. Each event offers a unique lens on what it means to build and run distributed applications in the real world — where scale is unpredictable, uptime is non-negotiable, and performance is expected under pressure.

Becca Weng

June 25, 2025

If you're building AI features into your applications, you're probably arriving at the same crossroads as everyone else: “Do I add another database to my stack, or find a way to make my existing infrastructure work smarter?”

David Weiss

June 24, 2025