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Our customers rely on us to help them navigate the complexities of the increasingly competitive cloud wars. Should they use Amazon Web Services (AWS)? Google Cloud Platform (GCP)? Microsoft Azure? How should they tune their workload for different offerings? Which is more reliable?

[For CockroachDB's most up-to-date performance benchmarks, please read our Performance Overview page] Correctness, stability, and performance are the foundations of CockroachDB. Today, we will demonstrate our rapid progress in performance and scalability with CockroachDB 2.1. CockroachDB is now 50x more scalable than Amazon Aurora at less than 2% of the price per tpmC. And unlike Aurora and other databases that selectively degrade isolation levels for performance, CockroachDB can achieve massive scale while maintaining serializable isolation, protecting your data from fraud and data loss. Read on to see benchmarked metrics that demonstrate that CockroachDB can provide customers an ultra-resilient and highly available database at massive scale.

Andy Woods

November 28, 2018

Update 3/4/19: This feature is out of beta! Want to learn more? Check out our webinar on migrating MySQL data to CockroachDB. We want to make it easy for users of existing database systems to get started with CockroachDB. To that end, we’re proud to announce that CockroachDB now has beta-level support for importing MySQL database dump files: you can now import your data from the most popular open-source database to our modern, globally-distributed SQL database with a single command.

Roland Crosby

November 15, 2018

Here at Cockroach Labs, we’ve had a continual focus on improving performance and scalability. To that end, our 2.1 release includes a brand-new, built-from-scratch, cost-based SQL optimizer. Besides enabling SQL features like correlated subqueries for the first time, it provides us with a flexible optimization framework that will yield significant performance improvements in upcoming releases, especially in more complex reporting queries. If you have queries that you think should be faster, send them our way! We’re building up libraries of queries that we use to tune the performance of the optimizer and prioritize future work.

Andy Kimball

November 8, 2018

CockroachDB was built to help teams scale their applications across the globe without sacrificing SQL’s convenience, power, and data-integrity guarantees. In CockroachDB 2.1, we’ve made it easier than ever to migrate from MySQL and Postgres, improved our scalability on transactional workloads by 5x, and launched a managed offering to help teams deploy low-latency, multi-region clusters with minimal operator overhead.

Nate Stewart

November 1, 2018

This week we’re pleased to announce the availability of Managed CockroachDB, the fully hosted and fully managed service created and run by Cockroach Labs that makes deploying, scaling, and managing CockroachDB effortless. Managed CockroachDB is cloud agnostic and available at launch on both AWS and GCP. The goal is simple: allow your development team to focus on building highly scalable applications without worrying about infrastructure operations.

Spencer Kimball

October 30, 2018

The development of the relational model heralded a big step forward for the world of databases. A few years later, SQL introduced a rich vocabulary for data manipulation: filters, projections, and—most importantly—the mighty join. Joins meant that analysts could construct new reports without having to interact with those eggheads in engineering, but more importantly, the existence of complex join queries meant that theoreticians had an interesting new NP-hard problem to fawn over for the next five decades.

If you’re reading this, you’re surely familiar with the arguments for high availability: services are only useful when they’re online. Unavailable services not only lose money, but also deteriorate your credibility in customers’ eyes. This could lead to immeasurable costs to your company in the future. Given that CockroachDB got its name because of its ability to survive failures, we thought we would cover some architectural considerations when building high availability services on top of Cockroach.

Many inky, black pixels have been rendered over GDPR. It dramatically shifts the landscape for businesses with any EU users, so there are a lot of questions about what it means in general, as well as what it takes to actually comply with it. In this post, we’ll cover how Cockroach Labs conceives of GDPR’s major tenants (known as Data Subject Rights, which translates to “things you must do for your users”), as well as some considerations as to what it actually means for your company’s database.