RoachFest24 New York | Rewind

RoachFest24, the first global event by Cockroach Labs, took place in New York City on September 26. The event was held at Chelsea Piers' scenic Pier 59 and featured headliners such as Microsoft, Global Payments, Starburst Data, The Estée Lauder Companies, and City Storage Systems. Attendees experienced an intensive schedule of insights into Cockroach Labs' leading cloud native distributed SQL database, CockroachDB. Key new features in CockroachDB 24.2 were unveiled, including Vector Search and Generic Query Plans. Important updates to CockroachDB Cloud were also announced, with the introduction of a new Standard plan for enterprises. The event was an essential resource for data professionals running their apps on CockroachDB or interested in learning about highly resilient databases.