How to Store Billions of Files with CockroachDB and Kubernetes

Optimal Systems, a company that started by archiving satellite photos for the European Space Agency, has grown significantly over the years and needed to modernize its infrastructure. The company's CTO, Nikola Milanovic, sought a solution with infinite cloud scaling, high availability, high fault tolerance, Postgres compatibility, and no dependency on Windows or any other proprietary software. Optimal Systems chose CockroachDB as it met all their requirements. They built a new storage product called yuuvis®, which includes AI-driven character recognition services to make documents searchable. The company is now working towards hosting 11 billion completely searchable documents using its CockroachDB and Elasticsearch-powered system.