AI

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

In today’s AI-driven world, enterprises need more than just fast queries or scalable storage, they need a unified data foundation that can power both real-time transactional workloads and vector-based AI applications. Traditionally, these two worlds have lived apart: transactional databases handled the operational data, while vector stores powered AI search and semantic similarity. But that separation comes at a cost: data fragmentation, slow pipelines, and operational complexity. What if you could have both in one system?

David Joy

November 18, 2025

AI systems, from LLM pipelines to generative image models, produce staggering volumes of unstructured data. But it's not the raw objects that cause operational headaches – it's the metadata: versions, references, lifecycles, and access policies. Without metadata management tools built into the database layer, object storage at scale quickly becomes unmanageable.

David Weiss

October 2, 2025

Every AI application – whether it's an LLM-powered chatbot, an API platform, or a generative service – depends on a secure, always-on identity layer. IAM (identity access management) determines who gets access, what they can do, and how long their session lasts. When the database behind IAM fails, so does the AI experience.

David Weiss

September 3, 2025

Recommendation engines have gained immense importance in today’s digital landscape. As global competition intensifies, businesses frequently leverage recommendation systems to enhance user experiences, drive engagement, and boost revenue.

Amine El Kouhen, Ph.D.

August 27, 2025

AI has moved far beyond the experimental phase. Now it's powering customer experiences, streamlining operations, and driving entirely new business models.

David Weiss

August 19, 2025

In the arms race against financial fraud, milliseconds matter.

Amine El Kouhen, Ph.D.

July 7, 2025

If you're building AI features into your applications, you're probably arriving at the same crossroads as everyone else: “Do I add another database to my stack, or find a way to make my existing infrastructure work smarter?”

David Weiss

June 24, 2025

Read on to learn how we combined recent academic research with practical engineering to solve the semantic search problem at massive scale, with fresh, real-time results, by leveraging CockroachDB’s unique distributed architecture.

Andy Kimball

June 23, 2025