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Database migration is a critical yet often daunting task for many enterprises that operate on legacy systems like Oracle, MySQL, or SQL Server. As these organizations strive to modernize their infrastructure and scale operations, transitioning to a distributed SQL database like CockroachDB presents a compelling opportunity – offering the consistency and familiar SQL structure of traditional databases while delivering the scalability, resilience, and performance first pioneered in NoSQL databases.

Rohan Joshi

March 19, 2025

This guide walks you through setting up Ory Hydra with CockroachDB, ensuring that your authentication system is not only secure but also highly available and scalable. Whether you’re a developer looking to implement authentication for a single app or an enterprise seeking a globally distributed solution, this tutorial will help you achieve your goals.

Ben Sherrill

March 18, 2025

In this 3-part series, “Surviving Failures with CockroachDB,” we’ll explore the most common failure scenarios affecting modern applications and databases — and, more importantly, how CockroachDB helps prevent, contain, and recover from them. In this first post, we’ll cover common application and database failures.

Alicia Lu

March 17, 2025

“What is SQL?” That’s a true FAQ in the world of databases.

David Weiss

March 10, 2025

While there are a number of tools to choose from, this blog explores how to leverage AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) to migrate from Aurora PostgreSQL to CockroachDB using a replication instance. This approach is particularly useful for customers who are already using DMS for an existing ETL pipeline and need to replace their current target database. This guide highlights how to configure DMS to work seamlessly with CockroachDB as the target, allowing you to continue using your existing ETL pipeline without modification, just as you did with a self-managed PostgreSQL or Aurora PG target machine.

Arun Pandey

March 5, 2025

.NET applications have powered enterprise workloads for decades. But as these applications — and the underlying monolithic databases — age, businesses often face ballooning maintenance costs, limited scalability, and a lack of robust multi-region support in the cloud.

David Weiss

March 4, 2025

Financial services have their sights set on a resilient cloud migration strategy: According to recent research, 53% of banking and financial services companies report experiencing service disruptions at least weekly.

David Weiss

February 26, 2025

What is application modernization? That’s officially an FAQ on the Internet. Here at Cockroach Labs, what people frequently ask us is a little more specific: What does Application Modernization have to do with databases?

David Bressler

February 25, 2025

Performance improvements are critical, not only for the scope and scale of applications, but also because increasing performance drives down the cost of ownership – and that’s where Cockroach Labs has focused on in this new release.

David Bressler

February 18, 2025