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Today, businesses are increasingly investing in multi-cloud strategies as a part of data modernization to enhance resilience, scalability, and operational efficiency. In the final installment of our series on Cloud Journeys with Distributed SQL, this blog post explores the benefits of working with CockroachDB to achieve multi-cloud.

Becca Weng

November 12, 2024

Black Friday and Cyber Monday are like the Superbowl for retailers. Instead of point spreads, though, e-commerce companies are betting on peak sales numbers. But while the deluge of deals evokes dreams of dollars for CEOs, the surging site traffic can be more of a nightmare for CTOs. The onslaught of shoppers puts huge amounts of stress on their application architecture. In this scenario, even a minor problem with inventory management can cause major consequences.

Charlie Custer

November 7, 2024

As organizations increasingly move to the cloud, scaling database infrastructure seamlessly while maintaining availability and performance becomes a top priority. Whether you're managing a fast-growing startup or an enterprise with global reach, finding the right balance between control, flexibility, and operational simplicity in a database is key: For those running on Microsoft Azure, CockroachDB presents a compelling choice.

David Joy

November 4, 2024

Reduced prices in compute for CockroachDB Cloud Standard and Advanced plans. Only pay for what you use in data transfer, backups, and changefeeds.

Andy Woods

November 1, 2024

While the first phase of cloud adoption involves deploying applications across region specific data centers or availability zones, the second phase of cloud adoption involves deploying data infrastructure across multiple regions to support global applications that require low-latency connectivity and redundancy across large geographical areas.

Becca Weng

October 31, 2024

What is resilience, and what does it mean to your business? The answer is starkly clear in a new Cockroach Labs survey – one that’s a wake-up call for enterprises everywhere. We’ve just released the results of “The State of Resilience 2025: Confronting Outages, Downtime, and Organizational Readiness”, and its findings shed a surprising new light on the high financial stakes of maintaining operational resilience.

David Weiss

October 29, 2024

The retail industry is undergoing a significant transformation, driven by rapid digitization and changing consumer expectations. As eCommerce platforms expand, and brick-and-mortar retailers embrace omnichannel strategies, businesses face increasing challenges related to scalability, reliability, and customer experience.

Harsh Shah

October 25, 2024

In today's rapidly evolving digital landscape, traditional mainframe database architectures have unique challenges and considerations for organizations that rely on conventional mainframe databases. Mainframe databases, while robust and capable of handling substantial volumes of data and high transaction throughput, face limitations in scaling, integration with modern systems, and cost efficiency.

Amine El Kouhen, Ph.D.

October 24, 2024

With our 24.2 release, CockroachDB adds support for the VECTOR data type, along with a set of pgvector compatible functions for doing interesting things like computing similarity between vectors. This article provides a brief overview of some related concepts and introduces a semantic search application to illustrate this new capability in action. These new functionalities demonstrate CockroachDB’s expanding support for AI-driven applications, such as Large Language Models (LLMs).

Michael Goddard

October 23, 2024