Cockroach Labs was dreamed up by former Google engineers Spencer Kimball, Peter Mattis and Ben Darnell as a scalable database for their fledgling photo-sharing app, Viewfinder (acquired by Square in ...

Cockroach Labs, the New York-based developer of the open source distributed database project CockroachDB, today announced that it’s closed a $55 million, oversubscribed series C round co-led by ...

Operational databases are critical to running enterprise applications, so a necessary catalyst for the popularity of cloud-based operational databases is enterprise adoption of the public cloud.