A one-day database event like no other—live or virtual.

This workshop introduces the foundational concepts behind CockroachDB as a distributed SQL database designed for resilience, scale, and consistency. The focus is on understanding how CockroachDB differs from traditional databases—and why its architecture enables survivability, horizontal scaling, and strong consistency across regions without manual intervention.

Key Topics Covered

• Distributed SQL fundamentals: nodes, ranges, replication, and rebalancing
• The Raft consensus protocol: how CockroachDB ensures consistency and fault tolerance
• ACID transactions in a distributed system: serializable isolation by default
• Automatic data distribution and horizontal scaling without manual sharding
• Survivability and high availability: handling node, zone, and region failures
• Multi-region fundamentals: latency, locality, and data placement strategies
• SQL compatibility and PostgreSQL wire protocol basics

This workshop covers vector storage, indexing, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) using CockroachDB as a unified operational and vector database. The focus is on why ACID transactions and referential integrity change the game for AI applications—eliminating orphaned vectors, ghost data, and consistency gaps that plague dual-database architectures (PostgreSQL + Pinecone).

Key Topics Covered

• Why ACID matters for AI: transactional ingestion, atomic updates, cascading deletes—no orphaned vectors, ever
• CockroachDB VECTOR type and C-SPANN indexing internals
• RAG pipeline design with transactional guarantees: all-or-nothing ingestion
• Hybrid search: combining vector similarity with SQL predicate pushdown and JOINs
• Multi-tenant vector isolation: using SQL predicates and foreign keys
• Performance benchmarking: C-SPANN vs. brute-force at scale