Cockroach Labs

“”CockroachDB is our source of truth… It stores everything for our banking partner. When building a mission-critical application, we wanted to choose the right technologies that would guarantee our customer’s data would never be at risk. CockroachDB lived up to its expectations that it promised.”

“There’s a lot of databases out there on the market. However, on paper, CockroachDB met all of our requirements to build a highly available platform. We felt like we were making an informed decision about our tech stack, and CockroachDB truly lived up to the expectations that it promised.”

““The ability to control where data resides is truly one of the unsung features of CockroachDB. It is so complicated with other systems – CockroachDB gives you flexibility and complete control so you can adhere to all sorts of global data regulations.””

“When I first learned the migration to CockroachDB was my responsibility, I set it up on my local machine and I tried to kill it. I tried to knock it over, and I thought my laptop was malfunctioning. It started to heat up and the fan was whirling like a jet engine, and I couldn't knock it over. I think CockroachDB is a really appropriate name for a technology that is so resilient.”

“The migration process has gone on without a hitch. CockroachDB is extremely resilient and has been much easier to manage. It provides monitoring and alerting, rolling upgrades and other features that have lowered maintenance. We’ve actually upgraded several times through the process and it's been seamless.”

“CockroachDB is a good fit for Spreedly because it's really leaning into the future. There's a lot of features that work out of the box that older technologies cannot provide and it has allowed us to bring several legacy systems into a single system.”

“Once we experienced how fabulously CockroachDB was handling all the volume and how much the team was enjoying the entire interaction and development phase, we made our decision to start migrating data off of MySQL.”

“CockroachDB helped us solve complex business problems and achieve success. Salesmate is just one example where we are using this database. We’ve had a 100% success rate so far, and our engineers are really excited to use it on our other big projects. We are looking forward to growing our partnership with CockroachDB so we can unlock future opportunities and continue to solve complex business challenges.”

“Read the documentation because most of the things that you’ll be hung up on are all written there. Additionally, the CockroachDB support team is great.”

“The main benefit that we’re seeing with CockroachDB is around scale. We can scale up and we can scale down. We have elasticity in the infrastructure to allow us to serve whatever application needs in case demand changes. For example, if there’s a busier season, we can scale up, and then we can scale down after to save money.”

“I heard about CockroachDB at the beginning of my time at Riskified, and originally I didn’t understand why we used a database with such a name. But now I understand the reason – because it survives. It can’t be killed, even though I tried to kill it myself.”

“Our data management philosophy shifted from managing a bunch of data silos, to thinking about managing data as a series of streams into and out of a system of record. CockroachDB is an ideal hub for bringing consistency to the data itself, and to the format for service-to-service communication with asynchronous data sharing with changefeeds. We’ve been able to shift our mentality thanks to CockroachDB’s feature set.”

“There’s a fluidity to CockroachDB that lets you respond dynamically without having to make changes to your application. This is really powerful to us because the teams managing the application are different from those managing the data systems. They have different control points and we don’t want to disrupt their workflow.”

“Databases are complex systems, and distributed databases even more complex. Abstracting the complexities away from the user is something that a database developer should be conscious of. In that context, CockroachDB has done a phenomenal job.”

“At Netflix, we provide the freedom for everyone to choose their technology. However, to reduce costs and operate efficiently, we want to offer a platform that will support a majority of the use cases. If they want white-glove support and CockroachDB fulfills their business requirement, CockroachDB is my suggestion.”

“As our business has scaled, as gaming has gone live, our requirements for databases have increased. We needed to scale the number of clusters over the past 2 years. Now we operate CockroachDB as a fleet.”

“If you need a high availability data store, we would recommend CockroachDB. A single node failure won’t cause a big problem, as the name suggests. In a multi-region setup, even in the event of total region failover, CockroachDB immediately transfers over leaseholders to other regions, and application owners have a totally seamless experience.”

“CockroachDB offers the biggest ROI I’ve seen in terms of paid support from any vendor.”

“We all have our war stories when this server crashed or this hardware failure occurred. And that’s one of the things I love about CockroachDB. You’ve got a swarm of Cockroaches working together and you step on any one and they survive. It's exciting to me to have this redundancy where I don’t have to worry about any one piece going down. Failures will happen. The question is, are you prepared for them? Can you withstand them? And with CockroachDB for us, the answer is yes.”

“CockroachDB gives you another option that’s not strictly SQL and not strictly NoSQL. It’s kind of this next-generation database that helps us solve a lot of challenges as we become more dependent on data and need to scale out further and further.”

“Alongside using CockroachDB for greenfield app development, we are starting to leverage all of the glorious, unstructured property data to push AI further into our user experience.”

“Slowly breaking apart our monolith and creating microservices makes the migration process to CockroachDB much easier. We have over 24 years worth of industry data and needed a way to conduct a low blast radius migration.”

“In my mind, CockroachDB is the solution that I think of when I think about modern, scalable, and resilient databases.”

“With CockroachDB, we’ve never had to worry about any bottlenecks and have been impressed with its ability to scale as our customers generate tremendous amounts of data.”

“We are looking to expand into EMEA in the near future and are aware of the complications that can arise when entering new territories. CockroachDB provides tremendous value when it comes to scaling your app across multiple geographies. It handles the complexity in the database layer, so we wouldn’t have to deal with it in the application layer.”