The Cockroach Labs Blog

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

In our recent webinar, Peter Mattis, CTO and CPO at Cockroach Labs, and Rob Reid, Technical Evangelist at Cockroach Labs, shared expertise on the critical aspects of building resilient systems and the profound impact of downtime on modern businesses. Throughout the conversation, they shared lessons from their careers, insights from working with customers, and fielded questions from the audience.

Becca Weng

October 22, 2024

One of the biggest trends driving media conversations this month was the intersection of AI and database technology, specifically around how AI is changing the way businesses handle data.

David Weiss

October 17, 2024

To showcase how the cloud has worked for companies across the globe and across industries, we’re kicking off a new blog series: Cloud Journeys with Distributed SQL. In this first post we will share some stories of how enterprises have moved from on-premise legacy database solutions to hybrid or single region cloud deployments by leveraging our distributed SQL database, CockroachDB.

Becca Weng

October 15, 2024

We’re delighted to feature Jasmine Sun’s experience on our SQL Foundations team. Jasmine Sun is a current junior at the University of Waterloo and joined Cockroach Labs for the Winter 2024 Cohort. We sat down with Jasmine to talk about CockroachDB, cats, and her tips for applying to our software engineering internship program.

Leslie Niiro

October 11, 2024

Mainframe systems have long been the backbone of enterprise computing, known for their reliability, scalability, and unmatched processing power. As businesses strive to modernize their IT infrastructures, understanding the fundamentals of mainframe database architecture becomes crucial.

Amine El Kouhen, Ph.D.

October 10, 2024

Each week, listeners can tune into Big Ideas in App Architecture, our podcast for architects and engineers who are building modern, data-intensive applications and systems. To honor the 50th episode release, and all the guests who have shared their insights and experiences with us along the way, we’re looking back at 12 of our most popular episodes spanning topics like navigating industry changes, building efficient engineering organizations, tackling the new world of AI, and building reliable, distributed systems.

Becca Weng

October 4, 2024