Mainframe modernization

Why modernize with CockroachDB?

Agility and flexibility

Build on a cloud-native infrastructure to quickly adapt to market changes and customer requests

Time and money

Reduce operational and capital expenses associated with mainframe hardware and specialized personnel

Scale and resilience

Achieve automated, horizontal scale (up and down) with enhanced disaster recovery capabilities

Global scale, access, and efficiency of the cloud

CockroachDB is a cloud-native, distributed SQL database that’s built to support modern application development in the cloud while delivering a secure and reliable environment that you can trust with your critical workloads.

	Mainframe	Distributed SQL
Architecture	Monolithic design	Supports microservices and modular design
Infrastructure	Proprietary hardware, on-premise	Cloud-based platform, on–premise or hybrid
Processing type	Batch processing oriented, tools available to stream as source and sink	Real-time processing
Reliability	High reliability & security	High reliability & security across environments (on-premise and in the cloud)
Disaster recovery	Manually add data centers for redundancy	Automatic resiliency across data centers (zero RPO)
Scalability	Manual scale, need to plan capacity in advance	Automated scale, scale up and back down as needed
Programing languages	Legacy languages (e.g., COBOL, FORTRAN), Java, Python, etc.	Contemporary languages (e.g. Python, Java, etc.)
Transactional consistency	Serializable, guaranteed consistent	Serializable, guaranteed consistent
Vendor lock-in	Proprietary systems with vendor lock-in	Cloud-native system, no vendor lock-in
Required skills	Specialized and trained personnel	Familiar with PostgreSQL