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Banking & Wallet

Rethinking the Global Reporting Platform

Data doesn’t just serve the business anymore. Data is the business. Every transaction, every decision, every customer experience depends on having timely, trustworthy insight – not weekly, not daily, but continuously.

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Alex Seriy

January 28, 2026

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Scale & Resilience

Engineering

Vehicle Search with SQL and Vector Embeddings

"I'll know it when I see it" is the classic car buyer's line, but it's also the one thing old-school search bars totally fail to deliver. Traditional keyword search fails when a customer wants a car that "looks like this photo from Fast and Furious." This is where vector search comes in, transforming unstructured data into mathematical vectors to find semantically similar items.

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Alejandro Infanzon

January 27, 2026

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Banking & Fintech

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Product

How to Simulate Resilient, Real-Time Anomaly Detection with CockroachDB and Kafka

When it comes to real-time applications, resilience isn't a nice-to-have, it’s a necessity. In this post, we’ll walk through a live demo designed to stress-test CockroachDB’s ability to detect anomalies in a stream of financial transactions. Along the way, we’ll simulate production traffic, observe latency under load, and scale our detection pipeline on the fly.

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Rob Reid

January 26, 2026

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Distributed SQL

Database Modernization

MOLT: A Toolkit for Migrations You Can Trust

Migrating a database is always a high-stakes operation. Downtime, data correctness, data loss, and customer experience are all on the line. Not to mention the business risk if a migration goes poorly. While there are a number of third-party tools that support data migration to CockroachDB, we have the expertise and insights into our product. We knew we could make migrations as efficient as possible in-house.

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Becca Weng

January 21, 2026

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Scale & Resilience

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Why Agentic AI is Outrunning Your Database (and How to Catch Up FAST)

Over the past year, it’s become increasingly clear that the most consequential change in AI isn’t happening in models — it’s happening in volume. As agentic systems move from experimentation into production and autonomy, autonomous activity is beginning to rival, and poised to exceed, human-driven traffic across the internet. That shift changes the economics and the physics of software.

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Jeff Cotrupe

January 20, 2026

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The Top Alternatives to Oracle and Amazon Aurora for Cloud-Scale Workloads

Oracle and Amazon Aurora continue to power many mission-critical applications. As cloud-scale workloads evolve, however, the definition of "enterprise-ready" has fundamentally shifted.

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David Weiss

January 16, 2026

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Security

Logging for Detection and Response: How We Build Security Signals at Cockroach Labs

Modern applications rely on CockroachDB for workloads where resilience, correctness and availability are absolutely critical. Whether it’s being deployed for payment systems, identity provider systems, or transactional systems, one thing is certain: If the underlying database platform of these applications isn’t secure, nothing built on top of it can be truly secure, either.

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Munir Jaber

January 15, 2026

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Identity Access Management (IAM)

Deploying Keycloak on CockroachDB with Phase Two: A Complete Guide

Today’s SaaS products face twin demands: the digital identity layer must be seamless and enterprise-grade, and the data layer must scale globally while remaining reliably consistent.

Sr. Partner Solutions Architect, Cockroach Labs

Amine El Kouhen, Ph.D.

January 14, 2026

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Engineering

Value Separation in Pebble: Storage Engine Optimization

At its foundation, CockroachDB depends on a key-value storage engine called Pebble. In CockroachDB v25.4, the storage team introduced value separation within Pebble: an optimization that improves compaction efficiency for many workloads. Value separation increases the throughput of the core of CockroachDB, the storage engine, by up to ~50%, depending on the workload, through algorithmic improvements. It reduces redundant I/O, reducing cost-to-serve at scale. We’ll look at how Pebble represents data today, what’s changed, and how that translates to database efficiency.

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Jackson Owens

January 13, 2026

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