Many databases claim to be "global." If you are evaluating products that promise global capabilities -- like CockroachDB or Amazon Aurora -- they should have these three requirements.

CockroachDB 20.2's increasingly rich SQL feature set includes support for spatial data, materialized views, Enums, ALTER TABLE, and user-defined schema changes.

If you are building applications on GCP or AWS, chances are you have heard of VPC peering. This blog post explains what VPC peering is and when to use it.

With this demo of highly available spatial data, show a London tourist where to find the nearest pubs. The demo uses Leaflet, Python, Flask, Kubernetes, and OpenStreetMap.

Spatial data types including GEOMETRY and GEOGRAPHY are now available for free in open source, distributed CockroachDB.

Cyber Monday and holiday shopping stress retail and ecommerce infrastructure. How will your site handle massive traffic? Are you giving customers accurate pricing and shipping info?

CockroachDB 20.2 performs 40% better on TPC-C, the industry-standard OLTP benchmark, passing 140K warehouses with a maximum throughput of 1.7M transactions per minute (tpmC).

Spatial data & indexing is a fundamental feature in many of the most popular applications. This blog explains what spatial data is and what the spatial data types are.

Distributed BACKUPs and RESTORE are now in CockroachDB Core to provide reliable, valuable Disaster Recovery for all CockroachDB applications.

CockroachDB 20.2 includes spatial data types and indexing, improved performance on TPC-C and TPC-H benchmarks, and introduces CockroachDB on Kubernetes. All available in CockroachDB Core.

CockroachDB and CockroachCloud have a full suite of security capabilities baked in. From TLS connections to encrypted backup/restore and RBAC controls for your data, we’ve worked hard to make sure you can secure your data and your workloads.

Unless you choose a Kubernetes-native database, you will fall short of the orchestration magic it renders possible. So what makes a database Kubernetes-native?

This blog walks through why topology patterns matter in CockroachDB, and how to select the one that works best for your use case.

Are enterprises adopting the DBaaS model? And which DBaaS vendors best suit enterprise workloads? GigaOm's Radar Report answers these questions, and more.

Is CockroachDB a distributed SQL database, or a distributed key value store? Learn about how the kv storage system in CockroachDB enables distributed SQL.

By its very definition, distribution creates latency. Geo-partitioning your data in CockroachDB makes it easy to minimize that latency.

CockroachDB for Python Developers is a new course for developers looking to build scalable, resilient apps on CockroachDB and Python.

The CockroachDB dialect for Hibernate is officially available 🥳 Hibernate now offers first-class support for CockroachDB, so get building in Java and CRDB.

How WISEflow and CockroachDB powered online tests when universities shut down and pivoted to remote learning across Europe and Asia.

Three new tutorials are available for CockroachDB and Spring data access patterns: Spring Data JDBC, Spring Data JPA, and MyBatis.

We’re excited to announce a few updates to our integration that make CockroachDB's compatibility with SQLAlchemy even more seamless.

What are the ins and outs of Distributed SQL? And how does it delivers the capabilities that traditional relational databases simply can't?

Why does a resilient database need Backup and Restore features? Learn about new Backup and Restore capabilities in CockroachDB 20.1, and when to use them.

The end of the US/EU Privacy Shield agreement is just one piece of the evolving data compliance regulatory landscape. Here's how CockroachDB can help.

Lateral joins - similar to nested foreign loops - are a type of correlated subquery that allow data sources to reference columns provided by previous data sources in the same query. Give them a spin in CockroachDB.

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

CockroachDB is fully compatibile with Active Record, the ORM powering Ruby on Rails, a popular open-source development frameworks for web apps.

Online Primary Key Changes allows you to upgrade your application from a single-region to multi-region with zero downtime. Here's how to make the most of the feature.

Learn CockroachDB for free with Cockroach University, and preview our upcoming course: "CockroachDB for Python Developers."

Our team has been hard at work improving CockroachDB’s compatibility with schema migration tools. Today, we’re pleased to announce that CockroachDB now fully supports the first of these tools, Flyway.

We want to give you a database that allows you to quickly and simply build and manage data-intensive applications in the cloud—without worrying about the performance, scale or resilience of those apps. To support that mission, our latest release includes updates that let you build fast and build to last.

In a reflection of our continued growth, we’ve closed $87 million in a series D financing round co-led by Altimeter Capital and Bond Capital.

Duplicate Indexes improve application performance by allowing you to keep data close to users no matter where they are in the world.

With GORM for CockroachDB, Golang developers can access the power of SQL and easily manage database interactions and operations, all in one place.

How we built native support for hash sharded indexes in CockroachDB, which can significantly improve performance on sequential workloads.

Python, distributed SQL, and high availability in one package. Announcing PonyORM support for CockroachDB.

As of jOOQ's 3.13.0 release, jOOQ fully supports CockroachDB. The CockroachDB SQL dialect is now fully supported for future jOOQ and CockroachDB versions.

Former intern Georgia Hong writes about the improvements she made to CockroachDB to make importing data without an external service even easier.

Python + Distributed SQL, made easy. Today, we’re excited to announce CockroachDB backend support for the Django ORM.

Yugabyte frequently compares themselves to CockroachDB. We investigated their claims. This is our analysis of CockroachDB vs. Yugabyte v2.0.0.

CockroachDB has successfully passed the TPC-C benchmark at 100,000 warehouses. And with a max throughput of 1.2m tpmC, CockroachDB can now process 100X the throughput of Amazon Aurora’s last published benchmark.

CockroachDB 19.2 improves latency, reliability, and usability. We’re bringing the speed of distributed transactions closer to the theoretical minimum.

Announcing CockroachCloud, a self-service, managed cloud offering of CockroachDB. CockroachCloud makes distributed SQL effortless, from small applications to global applications.

Our CockroachDB Feature of the Week, core changefeeds, is a new way for event-driven apps to consume data from CockroachDB.

In this post, we explore the steps we've taken so far--and plan to take--to improve the CockroachDB cost-based optimizer through query caching.

How a vectorized (column by column instead of row by row) approach to merge joins led to a 3x improvement in standard merge joins in CockroachDB.

CockroachDB is an excellent system of record, but no technology exists in a vacuum. That's why we built our version of Change Data Capture, which we call the changefeed.

The realities of building open source software have changed. Today, we're relicensing CockroachDB with a committment to building an open core product.

One small step for Cockroach Labs, one giant leap for our release numbering.

In CockroachDB 2.1, we’ve made it easier than ever to migrate from MySQL and Postgres, improved our scalability on transactional workloads by 5x, and launched a managed offering to help teams deploy low-latency, multi-region clusters with minimal operator overhead.

We’re pleased to announce the availability of Managed CockroachDB, the fully hosted and fully managed service run by Cockroach Labs that makes deploying, scaling, and managing effortless.

Since our 1.0 release, we have been hard at work making CockroachDB 2.0 the database that enables a company’s data layer to evolve with their business -- whether they are in a single datacenter or expanding around the world.

Learn which performance metrics matter, why to demand benchmark TPC-C results under serializable isolation, and how CockroachDB 2.0’s performance compares to 1.1.

With JSON support in CockroachDB, you can now use both structured and semi-structured data within the same database.

For DBA teams, minimizing cost and maximizing quality means defining and meeting recovery point objectives (demand zero RPO) and recovery time objectives (RTO).

The combination of secure mode and monitoring provides a user with a solid base on which to build database infrastructure in production with secure deployments.

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

CockroachDB 1.1 includes support for faster migrations from legacy databases, simplified cluster management, and improved performance.

This demo shows how easy it is to span CockroachDB across cloud platforms and then completely migrate data from one cloud to another with a single command.

CockroachDB 1.0 was built to be production-ready with an OLTP use case in mind.

Join the Cockroach Labs founders for an unscripted Q&A about the dirty details building 1.0 and in how they achieve consensus across three co-founders.

Launching CockroachDB 1.0, a production-ready release with distributed SQL and multi-active availability in two tiers: CockroachDB Core and CockroachDB Enterprise.

We recently began looking into what it would take to run CockroachDB on a Raspberry Pi, one of the go-to tools of the modern day computer tinkerer.

We introduced Cockroach Labs last June with a simple yet ambitious mission: Make Data Easy. We are now thrilled to launch CockroachDB beta.