By Andrew Jolly
Publication Date: 2026-05-13 17:01:00
NEW YORK, May 13, 2026 — Cockroach Labs, the company behind CockroachDB, a cloud-agnostic, PostgreSQL-compatible system of record for modern applications, today announced that CockroachDB will be available in the IBM Cloud catalog and supported on IBM Power processor-based server systems. This can give enterprises a direct path to adopt a distributed SQL database within IBM’s ecosystem and enable them to modernize mission-critical workloads while preserving existing investments in IBM Power infrastructure and IBM Cloud.
AI is reshaping the role of the database. As applications evolve to incorporate autonomous systems and continuous decision-making, the data layer must support agentic-scale concurrency, global distribution, and strict consistency simultaneously. This marks a fundamental shift from traditional architectures, which were optimized for stability within…