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:

- 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

Leadenhall Hub 1

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

- 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

Leadenhall Hub 2

For eleven years, CockroachDB has made the impossible possible, surviving regional outages with full consistency, transacting across continents, scaling elastically without re-architecture. Possible, but never easy. This year, that changes.

Each year at RoachFest, Spencer previews the work ahead. This year's preview is the most consequential of CockroachDB's history: the new database estate with a unified architecture operated by a continuous AI team for every cluster. He will show why the database that already runs your most critical workloads is becoming the database that runs every workload at a cost basis no other database can match and why the agents that build, fill, and operate the modern enterprise need a database they themselves can run on, and run.

The agentic database cloud begins this year, built on the database you already trust.

Spencer Kimball, Co-Founder & CEO
^{Main Stage | Bishopsgate Forum}

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The teams building the world's most important applications need a database that evolves with them, one that's ready for where they're going, not just where they've been. We'll dig into new product innovations such as our Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) which gives enterprises the fully managed experience they rely on, running inside their own infrastructure. We'll showcase our AI-powered migration tooling, making the move to CockroachDB faster and lower-risk than ever. And we'll share our approach to making CockroachDB agent-ready, built for the way modern AI applications are being designed and deployed. Looking ahead, we'll also share our approach for making CockroachDB the most price-performant database at scale (i.e. disaggregated storage and compute, auto-scaling, and offloading workload management), and how we're thinking about the future demands of AI data infrastructure.

Igor Stanko, VP of Product
^{Main Stage | Bishopsgate Forum}

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