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Cockroach Labs has just launched the first truly scalable serverless SQL database. Learn how it works and how a serverless sql database can relieve the operational burden of developers.

Understanding the Raft Consensus Algorithm can be tough. In honor of Mean Girls day (October 3), we present Raft as explained through the movie Mean Girls.

CockroachDB serverless is now in GA, a new migration toolset, and integrations with Vercel and HashiCorp.

The latest research paper from CockroachDB's engineering team, "A Demonstration of Multi-Region CockroachDB", will appear in the Demonstration Track of the VLDB 2022 conference in Sydney, Australia.

Indexes greatly improve the performance of read queries that use filters, but they come with a cost to write performance. Learn how to optimize indexes for the performance you need.

Running a media streaming service means keeping things available – especially when they're popular. But accomplishing that isn't easy.

How have databases evolved to handle high availability demands? This post walks through the development of active-passive, active-active, and multi-active systems.