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As businesses increasingly demand scalability, resilience, and flexibility, transitioning from traditional centralized systems to distributed architectures has become a critical strategic move.

Amine El Kouhen, Ph.D.

January 23, 2025

When crypto prices rise, the fortunes of this dynamic sector’s service providers also increase. However, industry upswings have a hazard: Rapid growth can mean outgrowing your database.

David Weiss

January 22, 2025

For many organizations, identity access management (IAM) systems are like the digital keys to the kingdom and the foundation for their day-to-day operations. Building and maintaining an IAM system can be extremely complex if you aren’t using the right infrastructure to support your business needs. In a previous post, we examined why IAM is critical to businesses, the challenges associated with building an IAM system, and compared a centralized vs. distributed system. Here we will discuss how you can achieve granular control over your IAM data in a distributed environment.

Cassie McAllister

January 21, 2025

In the world of finance, changing databases is usually pretty rare. When you’re in charge of other people’s money — several trillion dollars of it, in the case of one of the banks discussed in this article — even small changes could represent major risks. That’s why even today, many banks still run systems based on legacy relational databases such as Oracle, IBM, and PostgreSQL — often the same databases they were using 10 or even 20 years ago.

Cassie McAllister

January 16, 2025

Data modernization has been a critical aspect of technological evolution throughout recent history – it has simply taken on different forms based on the economic, business, and societal needs at the time. In a recent episode of Big Ideas in App Architecture, two expert Cockroach Labs sales engineers – David Joy and Jim Hatcher – discussed data modernization’s intriguing evolution, highlighting key shifts and trends that are unfolding.

Becca Weng

January 14, 2025

High-profile outages and performance constraints underscore the acute need for systems capable of adapting to the modern world. Take the recent Crowdstrike outage, which affected various industries, including finance, healthcare, and notably aviation: Thousands of flights were cancelled, and many hospitals worldwide had to cancel non-emergency procedures as they were unable to access patient data.

Becca Weng

January 13, 2025

Raise your hand if you’ve ever been locked out of your banking app, a hotel room, your work computer, your car, your Gmail… the list goes on. You know the reason your access was blocked was because you either forgot your keys/password or had the incorrect login credentials. Businesses of every kind implement identity and access management (IAM) systems for your protection, and their own. Failure to protect humans and resources can easily result in devastating consequences.

Cassie McAllister

January 8, 2025

Cockroach Labs has announced the availability of our new instructor-led training course, “CockroachDB Fundamentals for Application Development.” This course is the first in a series of live educational offerings from Cockroach Labs, designed to ensure that organizations make the most of CockroachDB.

David Weiss

January 7, 2025

Before we begin a comparison blog post about PostgreSQL, we must first acknowledge that it is one of the most reliable and widely used databases in the history of software. The world owes a debt of gratitude to the open source community that has built and supported this important project for the last 35 years. In this post, we unpack some of the architectural differences between PostgreSQL and CockroachDB. We’ll point out where the limitations of single server, single instance architecture might pose challenges for modern cloud infrastructure, and how a distributed foundation can be a better solution for your apps and services.

Cassie McAllister

January 6, 2025