Cockroach Labs

“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.”

“It’s important to understand that a database like CockroachDB is truly global (depending on your topology), meaning that you can access the data from anywhere and the data is available everywhere.”

“Incorrect payments can happen all the time. I’ve been in those situations before and they're really painful. I have to go through and audit each one and correct them manually. I really wanted to build a system where I could avoid that. And that’s one of the reasons why we wanted a truly distributed database, not an RDBMS where you basically try to retrofit some replication to it. We wanted a solution that’s fundamentally designed differently where that kind of replication is part of the system from the beginning, and that’s why we chose CockroachDB.”

“When working with CockroachDB you have to develop a distributed mindset. We knew we wanted to build a multi-region application so we started to ask ourselves, what part of the application layer do we put in the complexity to make this work? But with CockroachDB, the complexity is not in the application layer, a majority of it is handled by the database. This makes it substantially easier to build multi-region services.”

“Using a managed service greatly simplified our experience. We aren’t DBAs and we don’t want to be. With CockroachDB Dedicated, the infrastructure is managed by the experts that built the database. Our developers are more productive and we are actually saving time and resources.”

“We became early adopters of CockroachDB at SALTO because we had a feeling it would be a big player in the future. We started with an expectation and a hope of what the product would become, and we were not disappointed!”

““Every system will fail at some point, it is not the question if, but how to cope with failure. For us, data loss is not an option. Thanks to CockroachDB, we can recover the entire system. It’s our single source of truth – and that’s a huge benefit.””

““When it came to selecting a database solution, our choice was pretty simple. CockroachDB 100% fits our vision for an infinitely scalable database in the cloud. It’s how a software system should look.””