Cockroach Labs Blog

Modern databases offer huge advantages over legacy systems, but the prospect of migrating can be scary. Here are some real-world tips for getting it right.

AllSaints needed to move from their MySQL database setup to something that offered high availability and scalability. They found CockroachDB.

Devsisters knew that for Cookie Run: Kingdom, they needed a robust, scalable, cloud-native database. They found one in CockroachDB.

Optimal Systems needed to store billions of documents in a cloud-based system. With CockroachDB, ElasticSearch, and K8s, they built something amazing.

Database downtime can be a killer. Here are the stories of three huge companies that suffered costly outages, and what they did to eliminate downtime.

How ZITADEL built a scalable, cloud-native IAM platform that can scale across regions and across clouds.

“Not only did we want a database that could work for us when we launched, but we needed a solution that could work for us in the future.” - Josh Stewart, CTO

Lush has found lucrative logistical efficiencies after migrating from MySQL to CockroachDB to optimize global inventory management

Payment solutions data architecture in production with CockroachDB and Kubernetes.

Take a look at this IoT - smart electronics- use case in production on CockroachDB today - none of these electronics will ever go down like a Roomba.

A German startup developed an open source application to for contact tracing COVID-19. They built their platform on CockroachDB because they wanted a performant app that had the ability to scale to new regions.

This is the story of UNIwise, an education tech company, that powers an online testing platform for universities shut down during the pandemic. As demand surged, they delivered a frictionless experience to universities with a platform built on CockroachDB and Kubernetes.

A global financial data firm migrated off legacy Oracle infrastructure, creating a hybrid deployment of CockroachDB that spans on-prem datacenters and Google Cloud.

Brazilian bank Nubank migrated its credit card authorization service from in-memory storage to CockroachDB to achieve scalable, always-on infrastructure and more efficient operations.

As we settle into the New Year, we are eyeing the goals we need to achieve in the next 12 months. For retailers, how will you obtain new customers this year? How will you scale to a broader audience?

After a major network outage knocked its customer services app offline, a top U.S. cable company replaced Amazon Aurora with CockroachDB to provide an always-on customer service experience.

Financial services leader JPMorgan Chase inducts CockroachDB into Hall of Innovation in recognition of our next-generation data infrastructure.

In this blog post, we'll highlight MyMahi’s application architecture and discuss how serverless technologies like AWS Lambda interact with CockroachDB.

Startup companies, like TuneGO, use CockroachDB to build from the beginning for scale, resilience, and Kubernetes compatibility.

Oracle has historically been the database for healthcare, but times have changed. Read why one healthcare provider is moving workloads to CockroachDB.

A lack of flexible indexing, denormalization patterns and other Cassandra limitations led MyWorld to migrate from Cassandra to CockroachDB.

Learn why Education First chose CockroachCloud to as their managed database provider.

How a global electronic lock manufacturer modernized their identity access management (IAM) system with Managed CockroachDB.

Kindred Futures partners with CockroachDB to build next generation of global online gaming platform.

Using CockroachDB means shifting operational thinking from disaster recovery to disaster resilience, and completely side steps the risks associated with vendor lock-in.