Cockroach Labs vs LanceDB
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Developer of CockroachDB, the leading distributed SQL database; raised $633M total at a $5B Series F valuation; 715 employees; OEM deal with IBM in Oct 2025 for LinuxONE and IBM Cloud deployments.
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Cockroach Labs is the company behind CockroachDB, a cloud-native distributed SQL database designed for globally distributed applications that require consistent transactions, high availability, and horizontal scalability without the operational complexity of traditional sharded databases. Founded in 2015 by Peter Mattis, Spencer Kimball, and Ben Darnell — all ex-Google engineers who worked on Spanner and Bigtable — Cockroach Labs built CockroachDB on the same architectural principles as Google Spanner, making enterprise-grade distributed SQL available to organizations that cannot build or afford Google's internal infrastructure.
Open-source vector database with embedded deployment for RAG and semantic search; Lance columnar format with multimodal support for text, image, and video embeddings.
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LanceDB is an open-source vector database purpose-built for AI applications, offering serverless vector storage with embedded deployment, multimodal data support (text, images, video, audio), and native integration with popular AI development frameworks. Founded in 2022 and headquartered in San Francisco, LanceDB raised $10 million in seed funding and has gained significant traction among AI developers building retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems, semantic search applications, and multimodal AI pipelines.
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