Overview
Summary
The useful answer before the supporting detail.
Cockroach Labs provides CockroachDB, a distributed SQL database built for workloads that cannot fail, and Cockroach Continuum, an agentic database cloud for operating database estates at scale S1. It is used by teams needing resilience, global scale, and consistent transactions, such as financial services and SaaS S21 S72. The main practical value is eliminating the trade-off between resilience and transactional correctness, with elastic scaling and deployment anywhere S1 S21.
Product identity and positioning
Name, category, positioning, audience, and first-party claims.
- Identity: Cockroach Labs, provider of CockroachDB and Cockroach Continuum S1.
- Core purpose: Eliminates the trade-off between resilience at scale and transactional correctness S1.
- Intended users: Teams needing to survive failures, scale rapidly, and serve globally distributed customers S72.
- Product scope: CockroachDB is a distributed SQL database; Continuum is an agentic database cloud built on it S1.
- Positioning: For teams that can't slow down and can't go wrong S1.
- Claimed distinction: Globally distributed by design, not by configuration S12.
Use cases and audiences
Who the product serves and the jobs it is designed to handle.
| Audience | Practical use case |
|---|---|
| Financial services | Run mission-critical financial systems with high availability S21 S72. |
| Payments | Handle payment workloads that cannot fail S72. |
| Gaming | Support globally distributed gaming applications S72. |
| SaaS | Scale rapidly and serve globally distributed customers S72. |
| AI teams | Deploy production AI agents with durable memory and governed data access S12. |
Features
Features and capabilities
Core functions and evidence-backed product capabilities.
| Capability | What it does |
|---|---|
| Horizontal scaling | Add nodes to scale reads and writes elastically and automatically S21. |
| ACID transactions | Provides robust consistency and ACID transactions of RDBMS with NoSQL-style scaling S21. |
| Geo-partitioning | Enforces data residency at the database layer S12. |
| Enterprise security | Includes RBAC, encryption, OIDC/SSO, CMEK, and private endpoints S21. |
| Agentic memory | Provides durable memory for AI agents with vector retrieval and governed access S12. |
| AI operator (Aegis) | Watches databases, flags issues, and recommends fixes S72. |
| PostgreSQL compatibility | Speaks PostgreSQL wire protocol and supports most syntax, drivers, and ORMs S72. |
Integrations and ecosystem
Connected products, exports, APIs, and workflow compatibility.
| Integration or interface | Type | What it enables |
|---|---|---|
| PostgreSQL wire protocol | Integration | Connect applications with little or no code change S72. |
| Managed MCP server | AI interface | Gives AI agents a direct, secure connection to clusters S12. |
| ccloud CLI | API | Provides AI agents direct access to CockroachDB Cloud for provisioning and management S12. |
| Agentic Skills repository | Extension framework | Curated machine-executable capabilities encoding CockroachDB expertise S12. |
| CockroachDB Developer Plugin for AI model | Extension framework | Connects AI tools like AI modelCode directly with CockroachDB S12 S141. |
| CockroachDB Developer Plugin for Cursor | Extension framework | Connects AI tools like Cursor directly with CockroachDB S12 S141. |
| Monitoring integrations | Integration | Integrates with Datadog, Splunk, Dynatrace, New Relic for metrics and logs S141. |
| Cloud marketplaces | Integration | Private offers and pay-as-you-go billing via AWS, Google Cloud, Azure marketplaces S128. |
Pricing
Pricing and plans
Published plans, free access, trials, credits, and pricing limitations.
| Plan or offer | Verified price and billing | Included | Limits |
|---|---|---|---|
| CockroachDB Serverless | Starts at $0/month; 50 million RUs and 10 GiB storage free per month S141 | First 50M RUs and 10 GiB free monthly S141 | Not established |
| CockroachDB Dedicated | 2 vCPUs start at $0.18/hr; 4 vCPUs at $0.60/hr S141 | Not established | Not established |
| Continuum Standard | From $0.057 per vCPU-hour, metered by minute; ~$203/mo at 2 vCPU/100GB S128 | Usage-based storage S128 | Not established |
| Continuum Mission Critical | From $0.162 per vCPU-hour, metered by minute; ~$1,528/mo at 12 vCPU/100GB S128 | Provisioned storage; 1-hour P1 support S128 | Not established |
| Free trial | 30-day trial with $400 credit S128 | $400 credit S128 | Ends after 30 days or credit used S128 |
| Add-ons | Data Synchronization (CDC) $0.023/vCPU-hr; Data Replication (PCR) $0.023/vCPU-hr; Cluster Virtualization $0.023/vCPU-hr S128 | Stream changes to Kafka; cross-region failover; isolated virtual clusters S128 | Not established |
Trust and proof
Customers, proof, and reviews
Published proof, customer signals, and review evidence.
Independent reviews
| Platform | Page | How it was found | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| FeaturedCustomers | Cockroach Labs Reviews: Overview, Benefits, & Pricing / FeaturedCustomers | Grounded web search | # Cockroach Labs Review Customer Reference Rating 4.8 Devices Supported - Web-based Customer Types - < 50 Small Businesses - < 250 Medium Businesses - 250 + Large Businesses - 56 Testimonials - 48 Case Studies - 26 Customer Videos |
| AWS Marketplace | CockroachDB (pay-as-you-go) | Grounded web search | ### Ratings and reviews 4.3 38 ratings 5 star 4 star 3 star 2 star 1 star 47% 53% 4 AWS reviews / 34 external reviews External reviews are from G2 and PeerSpot . ... s built to scale automatically, so you don’t need to stress about servers |
| glassdoor.com | Cockroach Labs Reviews (96): Pros & Cons of Working At Cockroach Labs / Glassdoor | Grounded web search | 3.6 61% would recommend to a friend ... Cockroach Labs has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 96 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Cockroach Labs employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers |
Customer proof
| Proof type | Named customer or source | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Testimonial | Database administrator at travel and hospitality company | testimonial — Cockroach Labs has received a major distinction for the second year in a row: We have been named a Customers’ Choice vendor in the 2024 Gartner® Peer Insights™ ‘Voice of the Customer’: Cloud Database Management Systems report. (Cockroach Labs named as a Customers' Choice in 2024 Gartner® Peer Insights™ Voice of the Customer report) |
| Case study | cockroachlabs.com | customer case study — ## Case study From MySQL to CockroachDB at Groww: A Staged Production MigrationRead now How to choose the right metadata storeRead now A sports betting app saved millions switching from PostgreSQL to CockroachDBRead n… (Case study) |
| Case study | prelay.com | customer case study — solution, Cockroach Labs needed to modernize its approach to buyer evaluations. (Related articles) |
Independent mentions
- Latest topics - Cockroach Labs — Activity / / --- / --- / --- / --- / --- / / Welcome to the CockroachDB Forum Announcements / / 3 / 5504 / June ... determine which partition of a topic to emit data to when a Kafka sink is configured? CockroachDB developers / / 2 / 339 / October
- Cockroach Lab Careers - Blind — -Lots of smart people -Pay is fine, it's middle of the ... #### Cons -Benefits are lacking -No product market fit, it's not solving a problem that people have that they cannot solve with another product cheaper and faster -Burn rate vs. ARR is concerning
- Trusted by Enterprises / Customer Success with CockroachDB — “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.” Bryan
- Telecom provider replaces Amazon Aurora with CockroachDB — needed a more resilient solution. They turned to CockroachDB for its strong resiliency, consistency ... implemented CockroachDB in a hybrid, multi-region deployment that can survive data center failures
External links were grounded in one live web search. Search snippets are leads, not independently scraped page content; rejected links remain available in Review evidence.
Company, security, and trust
Ownership, policies, security signals, and public trust evidence.
| Signal | Finding | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Company and ownership | Beyond troubleshooting, our team also helps you succeed at scale through Professional Services, including best practices, migration assistance, and performance tuning. | source |
| Contact and support | Not published on the collected pages. | — |
| Legal and privacy | GDPR & Data Regulations | source |
| Security and compliance | Row-level security, column-level encryption, private connectivity | source |
| Uptime and status page | CockroachDB delivers the reliability, robust consistency and ACID transactions of RDBMS, while offering the horizontal scaling and distributed architecture of NoSQL. All of this is built to thrive in any environment, ens | source |
| Domain registered | 2015-01-23 | — |
| Domain expires | 2033-01-23 | — |
Not found on the collected pages: contact and support. This only means Scout did not find it on the pages it read; it says nothing about the company itself.
Documentation and product updates
Help resources, product guidance, and visible changes over time.
| Resource or update | Type | What is available | Date or freshness |
|---|---|---|---|
| The System of Record for Agentic Memory for Production AI by Cockroach Labs | Roadmap | Public product roadmap. (source) | Not dated |
Not found in the collected public sources: changelog or release notes, status page, separate help center or knowledge base.
Technical
Technical and delivery signals
Delivery model, platforms, API, data ownership, reliability claims and release activity.
| Signal | Finding | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Delivery model (cloud, self-hosted, desktop, browser extension) | Deploy on AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure, or all three S21. | S21 |
| Platforms and apps | Not published on the collected pages. | — |
| API and extensibility (API, SDK, webhooks, MCP, plugins) | Provides managed MCP server, ccloud CLI, and Agentic Skills repository S12. | S12 |
| Data ownership and export | Not published on the collected pages. | — |
| Performance and reliability claims | Claims fully managed, guaranteed uptime S21. | S21 |
| Release activity | Not published on the collected pages. | — |
Measured infrastructure
Domain, certificate, and hosting signals, measured directly.
| Signal | Finding |
|---|---|
| Domain registered | 2015-01-23 — Squarespace Domains II LLC |
| Domain expires | 2033-01-23 |
| First archived | 2015-02-22 — web archive |
| TLS certificate | Let's Encrypt, valid, expires 2026-12-28 |
| Security headers | HSTS, X-Content-Type-Options |
| Headers not served | CSP, X-Frame-Options, Referrer-Policy |
| Server header | Netlify |
| Mail handled by | aspmx.l.google.com, alt2.aspmx.l.google.com |
| Nameservers | ns-cloud-d3.googledomains.com, ns-cloud-d1.googledomains.com |
Not measurable: rdap: exceeded the overall budget; wayback: exceeded the overall budget; tls: exceeded the overall budget; dns: exceeded the overall budget; headers: exceeded the overall budget. A gap here means the lookup was unavailable, not that the finding is negative.
Limits and method
Limitations and open questions
Known constraints and missing evidence from the collected pages.
The collected pages do not mention specific limitations or competitors. Evidence gaps include lack of detailed pricing for CockroachDB Dedicated, absence of customer case studies with named companies, and no explicit uptime or status page information. Open questions remain about data export mechanisms and release cadence.
Sources, method, and limitations
Evidence inventory, collection method, provider use, and constraints.
This report is based on 15 collected pages from cockroachlabs.com, including product overviews, pricing pages, and the About page. Evidence was gathered via static and browser rendering rendering; external proof search was used for verification. Limitations include reliance on vendor-published claims and absence of third-party reviews or detailed documentation.
- Official Websitehttps://www.cockroachlabs.com/Verified
- Official Websitehttps://www.cockroachlabs.com/about/Verified
- Pricing Pagehttps://www.cockroachlabs.com/pricing/Verified
- Official Websitehttps://www.cockroachlabs.com/product/ai/Verified
- Official Websitehttps://www.cockroachlabs.com/product/overview/Verified
- Official Websitehttps://www.cockroachlabs.com/resources/what-is-jooq-when-to-use-jooq/Verified
- Pricing Pagehttps://www.cockroachlabs.com/cockroachdb/pricing/Verified
- Pricing Pagehttps://www.cockroachlabs.com/pricing/legacy/Verified
- Official Websitehttps://www.cockroachlabs.com/continuum-capabilities/Verified
- Official Websitehttps://www.cockroachlabs.com/blogs/product/Verified
- Official Websitehttps://www.cockroachlabs.com/careers/product-and-engineering/Verified
- Official Websitehttps://www.cockroachlabs.com/cockroachdb-master-agreement/product-specific-terms/Verified
- Review Sitehttps://www.featuredcustomers.com/vendor/cockroach-labs/reviewsVerified
- Review Sitehttps://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/reviews/reviews-list/prodview-n3xpypxea63duVerified
- Articlehttps://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/cockroach-labs-named-as-a-customers-choice-in-2024-gartner-r-peer-insights/Verified
- Articlehttps://forum.cockroachlabs.com/Verified
- Articlehttps://www.teamblind.com/company/Cockroach-LabVerified
- Review Sitehttps://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Cockroach-Labs-Reviews-E1168502.htmVerified
- Articlehttps://www.cockroachlabs.com/customers/Verified
- Articlehttps://www.cockroachlabs.com/customers/telecom-provider/Verified
- Articlehttps://www.cockroachlabs.com/resources/case-study/Verified
- Articlehttps://www.prelay.com/post/cockroach-labs-customer-storyVerified