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Continuum brings together resilient distributed SQL, elastic scale, multi-region performance, and flexible deployment in a single platform. Built for critical applications, it helps teams reduce operational complexity, stay available through failure, and adapt as infrastructure and business needs evolve.
Built for the demands modern infrastructure actually has.
Failures are part of real infrastructure. Nodes go down, regions degrade, traffic shifts, and teams still need critical applications to keep running. CockroachDB is designed to treat resilience as part of the database architecture, not as an operational workaround added later.
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Failure handling
Stay available through operational disruption
Use familiar SQL with a distributed architecture designed for applications that need to keep running as traffic, data, and infrastructure complexity grow.
ARCHITECTURE OVERVIEW
See how Continuum distributes data, coordinates workloads, and maintains availability across regions, environments, and infrastructure boundaries.
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Raft consensus explained: how CockroachDB survives failures
A deep dive into the consensus algorithm powering distributed replication.
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ENGINEERING
Raft consensus explained: how CockroachDB survives failures
A deep dive into the consensus algorithm powering distributed replication.
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A deep dive into the consensus algorithm powering distributed replication.
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Built with Continuum
See how teams use Continuum to support critical workloads, simplify operations, and build applications designed to keep moving as their business grows.
Door Dash
Door Dash
CockroachDB lets us serve 35M+ daily active users across 27 countries without a single-database bottleneck. We haven't had an outage in 18 months.
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Bose
Bose
We needed a database that handles 40M connected devices without manual sharding. CockroachDB was the only real option.
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Cisco
Cisco
We needed a database that handles 40M connected devices without manual sharding. CockroachDB was the only real option.
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“CockroachDB gave us the ability to operate globally without a global ops team. We went from 3 regions to 12 in a single sprint — no schema changes, no migration scripts.”
Sarah M., VP Engineering, DoorDash
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ENGINEERING
Getting Started
A deep dive into the consensus algorithm powering distributed replication.
REFERENCE
SQL Reference
Complete PostgreSQL-compatible SQL syntax.
GUIDE
Multi-Region
Regional data placement and failover.
REFERENCE
SQL Reference
Complete PostgreSQL-compatible SQL syntax.
ENGINEERING
Getting Started
A deep dive into the consensus algorithm powering distributed replication.
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A deep dive into the consensus algorithm powering distributed replication.
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