Database company Cockroach Labs more than doubles in value to $5bn

Cockroach Labs, the unfortunately named firm behind the distributed RDBMS CockroachDB, is ending the year as it began – with a massive inhalation of investor cash. Merely a twinkle in the eye of Google engineers a decade ago, the self-proclaimed cloud-native distributed SQL database biz has hit a nominal $5bn valuation with a …

[Pascal Monett]

CockroachDB

It takes a certain gusto to name one's product after a creature that would cause most people to call an exterminator.

[Short Fat Bald Hairy Man]

But, but, their slogan is

Scale fast. Survive disaster. Thrive everywhere.

[pip25]

It's pretty good, too

In my experience, anyway. It delivers on its promises, even if some functionality you'd take for granted in an SQL DB, like triggers, is still missing.