Cockroach Labs CEO: Diverse database models are essential as app demands surge
Interview On the eve of the Cockroach Labs' annual conference, CEO Spencer Kimball commented about the virtues of a rival database company. "There are real benefits to the way MongoDB does things, and that's why a lot of developers like it," he told The Register from RoachFest in New York.
The annual shindig saw the database company – which counts Netflix, Comcast, and delivery service Shipt as customers – launch its 24.2 release, featuring new vector search capabilities compatible with PostgreSQL's pgvector extension.
With something like a document store, you're throwing documents in there, and that's super convenient at first, but there is a cumulative tax...
Cockroach Labs produces the CockroachDB. The relational system boasts a near PostgreSQL-compatible front end with a distributed back end, in DBaaS and serverless forms, supporting vector search and the JSON document format. The company claims the distributed back end can make it resilient and consistent on a global scale.
Despite recent CockroachDB developments, Kimball said the rapidly growing database market supports a range of approaches, including NoSQL systems such as the document-oriented MongoDB.
