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CockroachDB 23.2 includes stored procedures/UDFs, performance boosts with smarter data distribution, physical replication, expedited recovery from cloud failures, and Read Committed isolation.

Michelle Gienow

January 18, 2024

What is cloud SQL? For that matter, what is Cloud SQL, and is it different from cloud SQL? Let's get to the bottom of this important but somewhat confusing (thanks, Google!) term.

Charlie Custer

January 16, 2024

Let's take a look at the most commonly-used data types in Postgres and how they're used in practice, including examples.

Charlie Custer

January 12, 2024

It's amazing how a series of small but unfortunate events can quickly add up to one very expensive problem. Like the time one person fat-fingered the wrong year on a mainframe JCL job, Ronald Reagan died, and the US postal service lost $500 million.

Michelle Gienow

January 11, 2024

Companies are increasingly chasing zero-RPO and zero-RTO solutions to ensure that their applications remain online no matter what. And it’s easy to see why: according to 2020 research from Gartner the average cost of IT downtime is $5,600 per minute.

At RoachFest '23, Shopmonkey Chief Technical Officer Jeff Haynie spoke about the compelling reasons the company moved their core business from Mongo to CockroachDB, and the architectural innovations they implemented to take advantage of CockroachDB’s unique multi-region capabilities.

Michelle Gienow

January 3, 2024

Each year, the Cockroach Labs blog offers a smorgasbord of posts on technical, educational, informational, and cultural topics to our fellow distributed database devotees (and everyone else, too!). In case you missed them. here are some reader favorites from 2023.