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Azure
|GDPR & Data Regulations
At Cockroach Labs, we are relentlessly focused on providing a database that is not only powerful and resilient but also fundamentally secure. We’re excited to announce a noteworthy milestone in our commitment to enterprise security and our integration with the Microsoft Azure ecosystem: CockroachDB Cloud now supports Customer-Managed Encryption Keys (CMEK) for Azure, along with Egress Perimeter Controls.

Biplav Saraf
November 5, 2025
Research & Reports
Academic Paper: How CockroachDB Cloud Delivers Affordable, Resilient, and Globally Scalable Databases
As applications scale globally, efficiency and cost control become top priorities. Elastic database tiers let data architects match resources to workload needs, ensuring consistent performance, predictable costs, and simplified operations at any scale.

Rebecca Taft
November 3, 2025
The Database Capabilities That Power Vector Search in AI Applications
Vector search is the backbone of intelligent AI experiences: semantic search, personalization, recommendations, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). But storing and querying high-dimensional embeddings at scale is only part of the challenge.

David Weiss
October 30, 2025
Why Agentic Applications Need Deterministic Foundations
Building agentic applications means you’re deliberately inviting non-determinism into your system. AI agents’ creativity and adaptability is super powerful, but it’s also dangerous if your data layer isn’t rock solid. The more flexible the top of your stack becomes, the stronger the foundation underneath has to be. This principle is what led me to anchor my agentic stack in CockroachDB.

Kiki Carter
October 28, 2025
Product
Introducing Value Separation in CockroachDB 25.3 for Improved Performance
Data architects are on the lookout for ways to maximize resources, while also keeping costs predictable and manageable. The right database plays a central role in achieving both – delivering better performance, scalability, and resilience without breaking the budget.

Dipti Joshi
October 23, 2025
RoachFest
RoachFest 2025 Highlights: Viva Las Vegas!
Cockroach Labs' RoachFest event series spanned the globe big time in 2025. We traveled from London to Bengaluru, then landed stateside for our Grand Finale: RoachFest Las Vegas!

David Weiss
October 21, 2025
Performance
Truly distributed and 5x more resilient - CockroachDB vs Oracle GDD
Oracle is a premier database provider, delivering solutions that cover most every possible permutation of SQL database configuration you can imagine. While complicated and expensive, Oracle has always delivered on its promises… until now.

David Bressler
October 10, 2025
User Metadata
Software & Tech
Generative AI
Always-on metadata for continuous operations
When we think of critical data, we often think of payments, health records, identities, etc. However, when it comes to the functionality of business-critical applications, metadata is often the unsung hero. This is becoming even more true in the AI era where organizations are using metadata to turn raw data into strategic assets that fuel sustainable and scalable growth. Metadata provides the context behind AI workloads so that developer teams know where it came from, how it’s been used, and whether or not it's trustworthy.

Cassie McAllister
October 8, 2025
IBM
Partnerships
IBM OEMs CockroachDB to Power the Future of Modernization
The data landscape has fundamentally shifted: Modern applications demand zero-downtime architectures, while regulatory frameworks expect increasingly precise data locality and residency controls. Meanwhile, AI workloads require continuous access to fresh, consistent data that powers applications at scale.

David Weiss
October 7, 2025
Performance
CockroachDB: 5x More Resilient Than Oracle Where it Matters
The raw performance of a database starts to matter a whole lot less if that database is down: If you’re fast and you’re down, you’re still down. To be clear, raw performance still matters, but traditional benchmarks don’t measure true customer experience when conditions are less than ideal.

Rob Reid
October 6, 2025
