Cockroach Labs bets on database pooling to cut cost of AI-era workloads

Cockroach Labs, the company behind distributed SQL database CockroachDB, is betting that the rise of agentic applications will make traditional database provisioning, where systems are sized for peak demand, increasingly difficult to justify as agents create highly concurrent, unpredictable and often short-lived database workloads that can leave provisioned compute idle between bursts. Its solution to that problem is Cockroach Continuum , a database fleet management platform that pools compute a