The Cockroach Labs Blog

With the massive GCP and AWS outage the same day as RoachFest25 London, resilience is truly more topical than ever. So if you missed the excitement of our annual database conference, or just want to relive the conference, we’re thrilled to announce that on August 5, we’re bringing the best of RoachFest25 London directly to you — wherever you are. Join us for a curated virtual replay featuring highlights from the top sessions, product insights, and customer stories that defined this year’s database event of the summer.

Becca Weng

June 17, 2025

In this blog post, we dive into the significance and benefits of RAG applications first. Then we explore the advantages of leveraging CockroachDB, a highly scalable and resilient distributed SQL database, as the foundation for building efficient and robust RAG applications. To illustrate the practical implementation, I’ve created a knowledge base chatbot.

Jessie Lin

June 13, 2025

In today’s always-on, global applications, raw speed is no longer enough. Modern enterprises demand not only blistering transaction rates but also unwavering stability when the unexpected strikes; whether that’s a network hiccup, a failing disk, or an entire data center going dark. With organizations averaging 86 outages a year, failures are the norm today. But traditional benchmarks like TPC-C only tell you how fast a database runs in perfect conditions, or sunny days. They leave out the more important story of what happens when things go wrong.

Dipti Joshi

June 11, 2025

Today, distributed SQL databases are redefining what’s possible for modern, global businesses. Recently, Peter Mattis, co-founder, CTO, and CPO of Cockroach Labs, and technical evangelist, Rob Reid, hosted a webinar called “The Magic of Distributed SQL: Zero Downtime & Infinite Scale.” Below, we recap the key ideas from the session and how they tie to the future of data infrastructure.

Becca Weng

June 10, 2025

Change data capture (CDC) is one of those data infrastructure patterns that quietly supports everything else. Event-driven microservices, real-time analytics, incremental ELT pipelines, operational alerting — they all depend on the same thing: a reliable stream of changes coming out of your transactional database.

Rohan Joshi

June 9, 2025

Payment systems are hitting a breaking point: Legacy infrastructure is now buckling under modern demands for speed, scale, and security. The enterprises that successfully modernize first will have a competitive advantage.

David Weiss

June 7, 2025

Information today is generated and consumed in unprecedented magnitudes. With every click, swipe, and transaction, massive amounts of data are collected, waiting to be harnessed for insights, decision-making, and innovation. Today, more than 80% of the data that organizations generate is unstructured – and the amount of this data type will only grow in the coming decades.

Amine El Kouhen, Ph.D.

June 5, 2025

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