Cloud native databases. Serverless databases. However you want to call them, there's a new breed of databases on the rise. One that promises automatic scalability on a global scale: No more toiling ...

There is an old joke that in the post-apocalyptic world that comes about because of plague or nuclear war, only two things will be left alive: cockroaches and Keith Richards, the guitarist for the ...

CockroachDB is a distributed SQL database built on top of a transactional and consistent key-value store that can withstand datacenter failures Until very recently, when you shopped for a database you ...

CockroachDB 20.2 brings a Kubernetes operator, spatial data, a new storage engine, SQL enhancements, and much more, extending the range of workloads for which the database can be used. CockroachDB was ...

The latest release from Cockroach Labs of CockroachDB focuses on making it easier for developers to deploy and manage distributed databases. The highlight include new SQL syntax that can be entered on ...

Most database startups avoid building relational databases, since that market is dominated by a few goliaths. Oracle, MySQL and Microsoft SQL Server have embedded themselves into the technical fabric ...

NEW YORK, June 3, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Cockroach Labs, a pioneer in cloud-native distributed SQL databases, today announced CockroachDB 25.2, a milestone release marking a decade of transformative ...

Cockroach Labs announced today the public beta of CockroachDB Serverless. CockroachDB Serverless delivers a fully elastic cloud data infrastructure that enables building applications with less ...

Cockroach Labs continues to build out its CockroachDB database with the general availability of the 21.2 release on Nov. 16. It has been an eventful year for Cockroach Labs, which raised $160 million ...

This picture taken on March 25, 2019 shows a cockroach at a roach farm in Yibin, China's southwestern Sichuan province. - As farmer Li Bingcai opened the door to his cockroach farm in southwest China, ...