The Cockroach Labs Blog

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

Read on to learn how we combined recent academic research with practical engineering to solve the semantic search problem at massive scale, with fresh, real-time results, by leveraging CockroachDB’s unique distributed architecture.

Andy Kimball

June 23, 2025

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