The Cockroach Labs Blog

Every major cloud hyperscaler is having global impact outages. The 2024 Microsoft incident happened due to a bug in Crowdstrike. Google Cloud failed this summer because of a small configuration issue. AWS's most popular region US-East-1 was impacted in October 2025 due to a small change in one of their services. In each case, thousands of organizations worldwide saw their applications crash.

Ankur Raina

December 9, 2025

When evaluating distributed databases like CockroachDB, customers often ask for what seems reasonable: fast transactions, regional survivability, and strong consistency. It sounds simple — low latency, resilience, and consistency in one database — but physics says otherwise. Here’s why you can’t have all three.

Alicia Lu

December 8, 2025

In the early years of computing, “consistency” had a clear home: the database. If your transactions were atomic and your indexes balanced, you could sleep at night knowing your system was sound.

Amine El Kouhen, Ph.D.

December 4, 2025

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has always been serious about keeping India’s banking system safe and resilient. And with the explosion of online payments, mobile banking, and real-time Unified Payments Interface (UPI) transactions, the pressure is higher than ever. One slip — a cyberattack, a major outage, or a fraud — and millions of customers feel the impact instantly.

Biplav Saraf

December 2, 2025

For Cockroach Labs and AWS, it’s been a year since we announced our Strategic Collaboration Agreement, and this is a moment to highlight how our partnership has grown. Today, we’re powering a new class of applications, from real-time genAI use-cases to scalable fintech platforms to globally resilient gaming experiences, ready to tackle the ever-changing landscape of tech advances.

Becca Weng

December 1, 2025

Modern applications demand agility, elasticity, and resilience, qualities that Kubernetes has made standard for stateless workloads. But what about databases, the inherently stateful core of every application stack? In our recent webinar, “Running Stateful at Scale: Scalable SQL Databases on Kubernetes,” Michael Wang, Director of Product Management, and Mark Zlamal, Enterprise Architect at Cockroach Labs, explored how CockroachDB bridges the gap between the reliability of traditional SQL databases and the scalability of cloud-native infrastructure.

Becca Weng

November 27, 2025

As part of our participation in Microsoft Ignite, Cockroach Labs hosted our latest Cockroach Connect, The Hidden Infrastructure Challenges Behind AI in San Francisco. In a day packed with activity, our CEO and co-founder Spencer Kimball moderated a powerhouse panel of investors: Peter Fenton (Benchmark), Satish Dharmaraj (Redpoint Ventures), and Lucas Swisher (Coatue). The conversation dove into the tectonic shifts underway in technology as AI redefines how systems and software are built, and how businesses operate.

Becca Weng

November 26, 2025

Change data capture (CDC) is the backbone of modern data platforms: Event-driven microservices, real-time analytics, incremental ELT, and operational alerts all depend on a reliable stream of change events. CockroachDB has long supported CDC with native changefeeds and familiar output formats like JSON and Avro. Now we’re adding Protocol Buffers (Protobuf) as a first‑class serialization option. If your organization standardizes on Protobuf for Kafka and downstream services, you’ll be able to plug CockroachDB in without glue code or format converters.

Rohan Joshi

November 25, 2025

As modern applications expand across regions and clouds, the database layer often becomes the biggest constraint on growth. Global user bases, 24/7 availability expectations, and ever-evolving regulations have made the choice of database architecture more critical than ever. To help you make a better choice we’ve released a new whitepaper, CockroachDB vs. Amazon Aurora & DSQL: A Comprehensive Enterprise Distributed SQL Database Analysis. It takes a clear, technical look at how Amazon Aurora and Amazon DSQL database offerings stack up against CockroachDB when it comes to scale, resilience, and operational simplicity.

Becca Weng

November 19, 2025