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Distributed SQL + Vectors: A Match Made in Heaven

In today’s AI-driven world, enterprises need more than just fast queries or scalable storage, they need a unified data foundation that can power both real-time transactional workloads and vector-based AI applications. Traditionally, these two worlds have lived apart: transactional databases handled the operational data, while vector stores powered AI search and semantic similarity. But that separation comes at a cost: data fragmentation, slow pipelines, and operational complexity. What if you could have both in one system?

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David Joy

November 18, 2025

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IBM

System

How CockroachDB Delivers True Cross-Platform Portability Across x86-64, ARM64 and IBM LinuxONE

Enterprises are operating across a fragmented infrastructure landscape that spans on-prem, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments. Their databases need to move just as freely.

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Jim Harris

November 17, 2025

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Outages Observer: When A Region or Cloud Fails, Resilience Must Be Automatic

AWS’s us-east-1 region stumbled last month, and the businesses buckled. Our customers didn’t. CockroachDB clusters continued serving global traffic without disruption – proving what “resilience by design” really means.

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David Weiss

November 14, 2025

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Database Modernization

Scale & Resilience

From Legacy to Cloud-Native: 7 Lessons from Real Oracle Migrations

In our recent webinar, “From Oracle to CockroachDB: Lessons from Real Migrations”, technical experts Rohan Joshi and Alistair Parry walked through how real-world organizations across industries migrated mission-critical workloads from Oracle to CockroachDB. Through this talk, live demo, and engaging Q&A, the audience learned which Oracle workloads are a great fit for CockroachDB, how to tackle schema conversion and PL/SQL refactoring, and how our MOLT (Migrate Off Legacy Technology) toolset accelerates the process.

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Becca Weng

November 13, 2025

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RoachFest

Events

Customer Talks

Future-Proofing Database Infrastructure: The Global RoachFest 2025 Recap

Across three continents and hundreds of attendees, our biggest RoachFest yet united a global community of architects, engineers, and innovators who share one goal: building systems that scale without fail.

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Becca Weng

November 11, 2025

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Azure

GDPR & Data Regulations

CockroachDB on Azure: Enabling HIPAA and PCI Readiness with Advanced Security Controls

At Cockroach Labs, we are relentlessly focused on providing a database that is not only powerful and resilient but also fundamentally secure. We’re excited to announce a noteworthy milestone in our commitment to enterprise security and our integration with the Microsoft Azure ecosystem: CockroachDB Cloud now supports Customer-Managed Encryption Keys (CMEK) for Azure, along with Egress Perimeter Controls.

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Biplav Saraf

November 5, 2025

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Research & Reports

Academic Paper: How CockroachDB Cloud Delivers Affordable, Resilient, and Globally Scalable Databases

As applications scale globally, efficiency and cost control become top priorities. Elastic database tiers let data architects match resources to workload needs, ensuring consistent performance, predictable costs, and simplified operations at any scale.

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Rebecca Taft

November 3, 2025

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The Database Capabilities That Power Vector Search in AI Applications

Vector search is the backbone of intelligent AI experiences: semantic search, personalization, recommendations, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). But storing and querying high-dimensional embeddings at scale is only part of the challenge.

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David Weiss

October 30, 2025

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Why Agentic Applications Need Deterministic Foundations

Building agentic applications means you’re deliberately inviting non-determinism into your system. AI agents’ creativity and adaptability is super powerful, but it’s also dangerous if your data layer isn’t rock solid. The more flexible the top of your stack becomes, the stronger the foundation underneath has to be. This principle is what led me to anchor my agentic stack in CockroachDB.

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Kiki Carter

October 28, 2025

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