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How is Lyft able to tell you how far away your driver is? How does DoorDash give accurate estimates for the food you just ordered? Both of these satisfying user experiences are possible because of spatial data. In this blog we’ll cover the basics of spatial data and then show some examples of common applications and use cases that use spatial data.

Dan Kelly

November 18, 2020

I’m a database nerd. Or, to be more precise, a DBMS nerd. What I love most about them is that while they’re everywhere, and modern society could not function without them, they’re incredibly difficult to build well. Part of this difficulty stems from the fact that databases are complex, and their construction borrows from nearly all fields of Computer Science.

Adam Storm

November 17, 2020

With 29 CockroachDB apps created and 33 Docs issues closed, it’s officially a wrap on CockroachDB’s Hacktoberfest 2020 project. While planning for Hacktoberfest, we asked our community: what holds them back from contributing to open source and how we could help them overcome those obstacles?

Amruta Ranade

November 13, 2020

Here at Cockroach Labs, we want to arm you with tools you need to build better products, deliver better customer experiences, and maybe even create the next billion-dollar idea. Our goal with CockroachDB is to make it easier for any and every developer to deliver data-intensive applications, allowing them to easily take advantage of high availability and elastic scale. With our latest release, CockroachDB 20.2, we have added updates to make developers even more productive with a broader range of workloads. We’ve also continued to improve the security and management capabilities of the database and, as always, have made considerable improvements to the performance of CockroachDB. With this release we are also incredibly happy to note that the majority of these new capabilities are available in our free option, CockroachDB Core.

Meagan Goldman

November 10, 2020

Like many industries, the financial services business is undergoing dramatic change. In response to the whole world going digital and the explosion of data available to drive decision making and customer experiences, banks are pursuing aggressive innovation in new applications and cloud infrastructure.

Spencer Kimball

November 5, 2020

In last week's episode of The Cockroach Hour, Jim Walker chatted with Cockroach Labs PMs Piyush Singh and Tommy Truongchau, along with security lead Aaron Blum, to talk about security features in CockroachDB. The full video is available here, and the transcript is below.

In last week's episode of The Cockroach Hour, Jim Walker chatted with Red Hat principal product manager Scott McCarty to talk about everything from the what the future of serverless and distroless are, to what happens when you run Oracle on Kubernetes. The full video is available here, and the transcript is below.

CockroachDB is a Distributed SQL database. That means for the person doing the querying, everything looks like the SQL they’ve known for years. But under the hood, there’s a lot more going on. In order to achieve the bulletproof resiliency and elastic scalability CockroachDB delivers, data is replicated and geographically distributed across nodes of a cluster, and read and write requests are automatically routed between nodes as appropriate. Replication and geo-distribution mean that your nodes have a shape--a topology--and how you design that topology allows you to make important tradeoffs regarding latency and resilience.

There’s a new paradigm in the database industry: Databases-as-a-Service. With their inherent advantages in elasticity, cost of ownership, and provisioning flexibility, the Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) model is quickly becoming the easy choice for small companies and startups. But in enterprise environments, navigating a paradigm shift like this is a different story. In enterprise environments, it may be imprudent to break completely from the on-premises past and present. As is always the case, diligent enterprise organizations must survey the market and take a holistic approach that deals with their data needs in totality.