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Retail & Ecommerce
|Orders & Inventory Management
For high availability & low latency: Architect a globally distributed eCommerce system
eCommerce is a broad domain, but at a basic level it encompasses any business that primarily buys or sells goods or services over the internet. This includes all sorts of companies from classic retailers and marketplaces, to food delivery and online travel. In this space, customer expectations are extremely high. They want a personalized experience, fast access/answers, and have zero tolerance for downtime. Not only do businesses have to accommodate a demanding customer, but they also have to figure out how to serve a geographically dispersed user base.
Cassie McAllister
July 29, 2025
eCommerce
Online Travel
Retail
Scale & Resilience
Ideal Isn't Real, But Improvement Is: CockroachDB's Resilience Enhanced in 25.2
Real-world database resilience is not about surviving under ideal conditions – it's about thriving when adversity strikes.
Dipti Joshi
July 22, 2025
Banking & Fintech
The limitations of PostgreSQL in financial services
PostgreSQL has almost 40 years of active development under its belt making it one of the most powerful and reliable relational database management systems (RDBMS). Even today it’s the fourth most popular database in the world, backed by a global community of dedicated supporters. It’s a good fit for business critical workloads because PostgreSQL delivers a highly stable foundation and is ACID compliant. This is also why it’s often used in financial services and for use cases that handle money.
Cassie McAllister
July 21, 2025
SELECT STAR Video Spotlight: A Happy Place for Devs and Data
Query detective? Training junky? Lead developer? All that and much more describes Greg Turnquist, who hosts the Cockroach Labs video and podcast series SELECT STAR.
David Weiss
July 17, 2025
Introducing Buffered Writes in CockroachDB
In exploring ways to improve transaction throughput performance for CockroachDB we have introduced buffered writes, in preview. Before buffered writes, each step that included a read or write would read or write from the leaseholder. Since the leaseholder is not always local, this communication could incur network round trips and serial execution of each statement.
David Bressler
July 15, 2025
Database Modernization
Identity Access Management (IAM)
When Teleport & CockroachDB Powered Global Tier 0 Access Management
In large-scale, security-sensitive enterprises particularly in finance, access infrastructure isn’t just another service — it’s a critical foundation.
Amine El Kouhen, Ph.D.
July 10, 2025
Security
You Shall Not Pass: Fine Grained Access Control with Row Level Security
Controlling who can access what data is more important than ever as organizations scale and modernize their data infrastructure.
Dikshant Adhikari
July 9, 2025
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Banking & Fintech
Payments
Top 5 financial services use cases for CockroachDB
The team at Cockroach Labs has worked with dozens of companies (including Fortune 50 banks) that use CockroachDB to support the following initiatives and use cases.
Cassie McAllister
July 8, 2025
Security
Artificial Intelligence
Fraud Detection at Scale with CockroachDB & AWS AI
In the arms race against financial fraud, milliseconds matter.
Amine El Kouhen, Ph.D.
July 7, 2025
Identity Access Management (IAM)
RBAC to the Future: Role-Based Access in GCP, AWS, and Azure
In Back to the Future, messing with the wrong wires could change the timeline. In cloud infrastructure, messing with the wrong permissions can do just as much damage. That’s why Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) is a cornerstone of secure, scalable platform design.
Vishal Jaishankar
June 27, 2025
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