Cockroach Labs

What Cockroach Labs does

Cockroach Labs is a venture-backed software company founded in 2015 and headquartered in New York that develops CockroachDB, a cloud-agnostic, distributed SQL database designed to deliver always-on availability and global scale for modern cloud-native applications. The product is built on a Raft-based consensus protocol with multi-region active-active replication, PostgreSQL wire-compatibility, ACID transaction guarantees across distributed clusters, and validated support for 300-node deployments storing up to 1PB per cluster (CockroachDB v25.4.4). Cockroach Labs sells through three primary modalities: a fully managed CockroachDB Cloud service with Basic (free), Standard ($0.18/vCPU-hour), and Advanced ($0.60/vCPU-hour) tiers; a Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) managed deployment inside customer AWS, GCP, or Azure accounts; and self-hosted Enterprise licenses.

The company generates revenue through subscription and usage-based cloud fees, BYOC managed-service charges, enterprise self-hosted licensing, and professional services delivered via its own team and certified partners. Distribution combines product-led growth (free tier, self-serve signup), enterprise field sales (Advanced tier with 99.999% SLA), channel partners (AWS, GCP, Azure, IBM Cloud marketplaces plus SIs and ISVs), and event-driven community engagement via the RoachFest annual conference. Cockroach Labs reports a global customer base spanning fintech, AI infrastructure, retail, e-commerce, gaming, media, and healthcare, with publicly named accounts including Booking.com, DoorDash, CoreWeave, NVIDIA, OpenAI, Rivian, Squarespace, FanDuel, SumUp, Riskified, Shipt (Target), Fortinet, Hard Rock Digital, and Kaizen Gaming. Through 2021 the company raised approximately $633M in venture funding, including a $278M Series F at a $5B valuation led by Greenoaks Capital, with stated intent to use capital for cloud revenue growth, hyperscaler partnership expansion, and IPO preparation.

Name

Cockroach Labs

Legal name

Cockroach Labs, Inc.

Website

https://cockroachlabs.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2015

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

501–1,000 employees

Short description

Cockroach Labs is a venture-backed software company founded in 2015 that develops CockroachDB, a cloud-agnostic, PostgreSQL-compatible distributed SQL database serving fintech, AI infrastructure, retail, gaming, healthcare, and enterprise customers with always-on multi-region availability and horizontal scale.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Distributed SQL Database

NAICS

Software Publishers (5132), Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (5182)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro primary industry

NewSQL / Distributed SQL Databases (HDAEAAAC)

akta.pro secondary industries

Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) Platforms (HDAEAAAN), Managed Databases (Relational/NoSQL/In-Memory DBaaS) (HDABAAAE)

Keywords

• Distributed SQL database
• Cloud-native database
• PostgreSQL compatible
• Multi-region replication
• Database as a service

Headquarters

HQ city

New York

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices5 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. Cloud Subscription (CockroachDB Cloud): Cloud-hosted managed database service with three tiers: Basic (free tier with usage limits), Standard (provisioned compute at $0.18/hr per vCPU), and Advanced (unlimited scaling at $0.60/hr per vCPU). Includes annual/multi-year contract options with discounts.
2. Usage-Based Cloud: Basic tier uses request units (RU) based model with first 50 million RUs free per month. On-demand compute and storage that scales to zero for cost efficiency.
3. Enterprise Self-Hosted: CockroachDB Enterprise for on-premises deployment with commercial licensing. Targets organizations requiring self-managed infrastructure or data sovereignty.
4. BYOC (Bring Your Own Cloud): Managed CockroachDB deployed in customer's own AWS, GCP, or Azure account. Customer pays cloud provider for infrastructure; Cockroach Labs charges for management.
5. Professional Services: Deployment assistance, migration services, architectural guidance, and technical training. Offered through professional services team and certified partners.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion4 records

Distribution channels8 records

Marketing channels9 records

Core offering

Cockroach Labs develops and sells CockroachDB, a cloud-agnostic, PostgreSQL-compatible distributed SQL database built for always-on, globally distributed applications. The company offers CockroachDB Cloud as a fully managed database-as-a-service with Basic, Standard, and Advanced tiers, as well as CockroachDB Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) deployed into a customer's own AWS, GCP, or Azure account, and a self-hosted Enterprise license for on-premises deployments. The product is targeted at organizations needing horizontal scale, multi-region active-active replication, strong consistency, and regulatory compliance for mission-critical transactional and AI-driven workloads.

Product overview

Cockroach Labs offers CockroachDB, a cloud-native distributed SQL database that is PostgreSQL-compatible. The product portfolio includes CockroachDB Cloud (fully-managed DBaaS with Basic, Standard, and Advanced tiers), CockroachDB Bring Your Own Cloud (managed service in customer cloud accounts), CockroachDB Self-Hosted (enterprise deployment), plus AI capabilities including distributed vector index for semantic search, MCP Server integration for AI tools, and ccloud CLI for agent automation. The database delivers always-on availability with automated replication, strong consistency, and global low-latency data access across on-premise, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• CockroachDB Cloud: Fully managed cloud database service with Basic, Standard, and Advanced pricing tiers.
• CockroachDB Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC)
• CockroachDB Self-Hosted
• CockroachDB Enterprise

Products and services

• CockroachDB CockroachDB is the company's flagship open-core distributed SQL database. It is PostgreSQL-wire-compatible, cloud-agnostic, and provides horizontal scaling to hundreds of nodes and petabytes, multi-region active-active replication with automated failover, ACID transactions, and data domiciling for regulatory compliance. It is licensed commercially for self-hosted enterprise use and forms the engine behind the company's managed cloud offerings.
• CockroachDB Cloud CockroachDB Cloud is a fully managed, distributed SQL database-as-a-service delivered on AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. It offers three tiers (Basic, Standard, Advanced) covering free/dev workloads through enterprise mission-critical deployments with multi-region support, 99.99%-99.999% availability SLAs, dedicated support, CMEK encryption, and PCI/HIPAA-eligible configurations. It is aimed at developers and enterprises that want managed CockroachDB without operating the underlying infrastructure.
• CockroachDB Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) CockroachDB BYOC deploys a managed CockroachDB cluster inside a customer's own AWS, GCP, or Azure account. It preserves data residency and lets customers use existing cloud provider commitments while Cockroach Labs handles operations, scaling, and upgrades with a 99.999% cluster uptime SLA. It is positioned for enterprises with strict data sovereignty or cloud commitment requirements.
• CockroachDB Self-Hosted Enterprise CockroachDB Self-Hosted Enterprise is the on-premises deployment of CockroachDB targeted at organizations that need to run the database inside their own infrastructure or data centers. It is sold as an enterprise license with commercial support and maintenance and is designed for environments requiring full operational control, including regulated and hybrid-cloud deployments.

Quantifiable outcome

• 100% survival rate from regional failures with automated failover
• +5 more outcomes

Named customers17 records

Segments9 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration6 records

AI capability4 records

Feature10 records

Partnerships

Nine partnerships are on record, tiered core and featured.

• IBMcoreTechnology or Integration · 13 May 2026CockroachDB available in IBM Cloud catalog and supported on IBM Power processor-based server systems. Partnership enables enterprises to modernize mission-critical workloads within IBM's ecosystem.
• IBM (OEM Agreement)coreOEM/ Whitelabel/ Licensing Partner · 8 October 2025IBM signed OEM agreement with Cockroach Labs to offer CockroachDB across IBM's hybrid environments including LinuxONE, Linux on Z, Power Systems, and Red Hat OpenShift. Aims to help enterprises modernize legacy mainframe applications.
• Amazon Web Services (AWS)coreTechnology or IntegrationAWS is a cloud infrastructure partner enabling CockroachDB Cloud deployments. CockroachDB is available on AWS Marketplace and supports AWS regions for multi-region deployments.
• Google Cloud Platform (GCP)coreTechnology or IntegrationGCP is a cloud infrastructure partner enabling CockroachDB Cloud deployments. CockroachDB is available on Google Cloud Marketplace with multi-region support.
• Microsoft AzurecoreTechnology or IntegrationAzure is a cloud infrastructure partner enabling CockroachDB Cloud deployments. CockroachDB supports Azure regions in Advanced tier with full multi-region capabilities.
• TeleportfeaturedTechnology or IntegrationTeleport's Secure Identity and Access platform integrates with CockroachDB to deliver scale, resilience, and performance for customers. Joint go-to-market through ISV Partner Program.
• AuthZedfeaturedTechnology or IntegrationAuthZed's fine-grained authorization platform uses CockroachDB for persistence, providing consistent, resilient permissions infrastructure for enterprise customers.
• OryfeaturedTechnology or IntegrationOry partners with CockroachDB to deliver secure, globally distributed IAM solutions with resilience and scale for the modern AI landscape.
• PhaseTwofeaturedTechnology or IntegrationPhaseTwo uses CockroachDB Cloud to power scalable Keycloak identity and access management hosting platform, deploying Keycloak in a distributed, resilient fashion.

Scale indicators10 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Yugabyte: YugabyteDB is an open-source distributed SQL database that is PostgreSQL-compatible and targets the same globally distributed OLTP workloads as CockroachDB. It is the closest head-to-head competitor and often paired with CockroachDB in comparison content.
• PingCAP (TiDB): TiDB is an open-source distributed SQL database (MySQL-compatible) built for horizontal scale, hybrid transactional/analytical processing, and cloud-native deployments. It competes with CockroachDB for the same OLTP scale-out workloads, primarily on the MySQL side of the ecosystem.
• SingleStore: SingleStore (formerly MemSQL) is a distributed SQL database designed for high-throughput transactional and real-time analytical workloads. It competes with CockroachDB for hybrid OLTP/OLAP and real-time analytics use cases at scale.

Broad incumbents

• Google Cloud Spanner: Spanner is Google Cloud's globally distributed, strongly consistent relational database and the original commercial reference for the distributed SQL category. It directly overlaps with CockroachDB on multi-region ACID transactions and is the primary hyperscaler benchmark in the category.
• Amazon Aurora DSQL: Aurora DSQL is AWS's distributed SQL service offering multi-region strong consistency and PostgreSQL compatibility. It is the most direct hyperscaler competitor to CockroachDB on AWS-native workloads and a pricing/distribution threat given first-party status on the platform.
• Azure SQL (Hyperscale / Fabric): Azure SQL Hyperscale and related Microsoft distributed database offerings compete with CockroachDB for enterprise OLTP workloads running on Azure, particularly among Microsoft's enterprise installed base where co-sell favors the first-party option.
• MongoDB: MongoDB Atlas is a cloud-managed document/NoSQL database that competes with CockroachDB for operational database workloads, especially where developers prioritize flexible schema over strong SQL semantics. It is also highlighted in Gartner's DBMS Market Share context alongside Cockroach Labs.

Emerging players

• PlanetScale: PlanetScale offers a serverless, MySQL-compatible distributed SQL platform built on Vitess (the sharding middleware originally developed for YouTube). After its 2023 Hibernate-and-pivot, it now serves as a competing developer-first distributed MySQL platform with some thematic overlap to CockroachDB's PLG motion.
• ScyllaDB: ScyllaDB is a high-performance, distributed NoSQL database (Cassandra- and DynamoDB-compatible) targeted at low-latency workloads at extreme scale. It overlaps with CockroachDB on the always-on, globally distributed OLTP promise but serves NoSQL rather than SQL use cases.

Others

• Snowflake: Snowflake is a cloud data platform for analytics workloads and is grouped with Cockroach Labs as a "rising vendor" in Gartner's DBMS Market Share report. While its OLAP orientation differs from CockroachDB's OLTP focus, both compete for enterprise data platform wallet share and are routinely benchmarked together by data and analytics buyers.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/cockroachdb
• GitHubgithub.com/cockroachdb
• YouTubeyoutube.com/@cockroachdb
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/cockroach-labs
• Instagraminstagram.com/cockroachdb
• Facebookfacebook.com/cockroachlabs

Compliance12 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles13 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds7 records

Investors21 records

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments1 record

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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