CockroachDB key facts
Last updated- Legal entity
- Cockroach Labs Inc.
- Headquarters
- Germany (DE)
- Ownership
- Independent
- Founded
- 2015
- Data hosting
- Canada, United Kingdom, India, United States
- Infrastructure
- AWS, GCP, Azure
- Deployment
- SaaS
- Open source
- No
- US Cloud Act exposure
- Exposed
- Replaces
- Google Spanner, Amazon Aurora, Azure SQL Database, Oracle Database, PostgreSQL (standard)
About CockroachDB
Cockroach Labs is a technology company headquartered in New York City that specializes in CockroachDB, a cloud-native distributed SQL database. Built to handle mission-critical workloads, the database is architected to eliminate downtime and simplify the complexities of scaling data-intensive applications across global environments. It allows organizations to maintain a single logical database that can span multiple cloud providers and geographic regions. The company serves a global B2B market, particularly in highly regulated sectors such as fintech, payments, and enterprise retail. Its architecture is specifically designed to handle node, rack, or even regional failures without data loss or service interruption. While the company is US-based, its technology supports data residency requirements by allowing users to pin data to specific geographic locations, a critical feature for European enterprises managing GDPR compliance and sovereignty requirements.
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