Cockroach Labs offers CockroachDB, a PostgreSQL‑compatible distributed SQL database that provides strong consistency, automatic multi‑region replication, and zero‑data‑loss failover across on‑premise, hybrid, and cloud environments. It eliminates manual sharding by scaling horizontally from a few nodes to hundreds while allowing data locality controls for regulatory compliance and low‑latency global access. The platform also supports online schema changes, automated upgrades, and managed cloud or BYOC deployment options for mission‑critical enterprise applications.
Funding
$278M raised to dateRaised to date based on public sources. This may differ from the amount the company actually raised and is based only on what is publicly available on the internet.
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Product
Problem
Enterprises that require globally distributed, highly available databases face challenges with traditional single-region systems, which can suffer downtime during regional failures, require complex manual sharding, and involve costly operational overhead to maintain compliance and performance at scale.
Solution
CockroachDB is a distributed SQL database that provides strong consistency, automatic multi-region replication, and zero-data-loss failover across on-premise, hybrid, and cloud environments. It eliminates the need for manual sharding by scaling horizontally from a few nodes to hundreds while maintaining PostgreSQL compatibility. The platform offers online schema changes, automated upgrades, and built-in backup capabilities to minimize maintenance windows. Data can be pinned to specific geographic locations to meet regulatory requirements, and the system integrates with vector search for AI workloads. Customers can run CockroachDB as a managed cloud service or deploy it in their own infrastructure, choosing the model that fits their operational and compliance needs.
Target Audience
Primary customers are enterprise software teams building mission‑critical, globally distributed applications—such as fintech, AI platforms, and large‑scale SaaS providers—that need high availability, compliance, and seamless scaling.
Features
- Strongly consistent, globally distributed SQL engine with automatic 3‑way replication and multi‑region support
- Zero‑downtime online upgrades, schema changes, and backups to reduce operational disruption
- Horizontal scaling from small clusters to hundreds of nodes and petabytes without application re‑architecture
- Data locality controls for regulatory compliance (e.g., DORA, PCI, HIPAA) and reduced latency
- PostgreSQL‑compatible query layer with support for vector data integration for AI use cases
- Managed CockroachDB Cloud with on‑demand compute/storage scaling, private connectivity, and SLA up to 99.999%
- Deployable on‑premise, hybrid, or any public cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure) with BYOC option