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Understand the steps, risks, tooling, and support options before moving critical workloads to CockroachDB.
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MIGRATION
Why teams migrate?
Teams usually consider migration when their current database starts limiting scale, resilience, regional growth, operational control, or long-term architecture plans.
Common Migration Concerns
Before teams migrate, they need to understand downtime risk, application compatibility, schema changes, validation, and support.
Your migration path
Move to Continuum with a clear, phased approach designed to reduce risk, maintain continuity, and minimize disruption to your applications and teams.
AUTOMATED
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Assessment
MOLT Schema Advisor analyzes your source DB
02
Schema Migration
Convert DDL with compatibility layer
ZERO DOWNTIME
03
Data Load
Bulk import via MOLT Fetch, parallel, resumable
AUTOMATED
04
Live Replication
CDC keeps source and target in sync
AUTOMATED
05
Validation
Row-level consistency verification
ZERO DOWNTIME
06
Cutover
Atomic traffic switch with instant rollback
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ARCHITECTURE OVERVIEW
See how Continuum distributes data, coordinates workloads, and maintains availability across regions, environments, and infrastructure boundaries.
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“CockroachDB gave us a clearer path to modernize our database architecture while keeping operational risk visible and manageable.”
Sarah M., VP Engineering, DoorDash
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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.
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SQL Reference
Complete PostgreSQL-compatible SQL syntax.
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Planning a migration?
Review the technical guidance or talk to the team about your current environment, migration goals, and risk requirements.
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