CockroachDB for

Agent State Management

CockroachDB gives AI agents a durable foundation for the state they need across steps, sessions, and users. Bring requests, responses, decisions, workflow state, metadata, and embeddings together in one distributed SQL database, so agents can use AI retrieval to find relevant context, coordinate actions, and operate with accuracy and reliability on live transactional data. With built in security, governance, and resilience, CockroachDB helps teams move agentic workflows from prototype to production.

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Why customers choose CockroachDB for Agent State Management

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Unified Access Layer

SQL for Structure + Semi-Structured + Vector Embedding stored together; no ETL pipelines, no sync lag

Security and compliance

Enterprise Security & Audit

Row based access controls, row-level security, and encryption; auditing for data, schema and permissions

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Zero-Downtime

99.999% uptime SLA; agents cannot stall due to database downtime

Consistency and resilience

Data Consistency

Agents can’t be accurate with eventually consistent data. They hallucinate and make the wrong decisions.

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Agent State Management Reference Architecture

  • Zero ETL, One System. Vectors and relational data live in the same database. Write and index in a single ACID transaction.

  • ACID Consistency for Embeddings. Embeddings and source records change together in a single commit; always in sync.

  • Global Distribution by Design. Deploy agent memory across regions. Locality-aware reads/writes ensure low latency wherever agents run.

  • C-SPANN Vector Indexing. CockroachDB’s purpose-built distributed vector index supports high-ingest, real-time updates without index rebuilds.

  • Enterprise Security and Compliance. Geo-partitioning enforces data residency. Row-level access control, encryption, and audit logs down to the row.

  • Serverless Multi-tenant Isolation. Instant per-agent or per-user database isolation without operational overhead.

  • Scale without Re-architecture. Horizontal scale from first agent to fleet. No manual sharding. No migration required.

Testimonial

CockroachDB and the Cockroach Labs team is a seamless fit to help us scale our business and our products. Data is essential for AI, right? Without data, you can't build better models. Having a solid data platform and operational data layer where we can build better models and better products for our customers is ideal. And that's what CockroachDB is enabling us to do today.

Arjun Sambamoorthy

VP, CTO Cisco AI

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