CockroachDB 25.2: Celebrating a decade of innovation with enhanced performance, vector indexing, and more

The CockroachDB team has released version 25.2, a major update that celebrates 10 years of continuous distributed SQL innovation. This release introduces significant performance and scalability improvements, including a 50% increase in throughput compared to the previous version. Other notable features include buffered writes, which improves performance by reducing latency and hardware requirements, database restore enhancements that speed up restoration from backups, vector indexing for AI applications, row-level security, enhanced observability, new CockroachDB Cloud regions, and plan switching without downtime. These updates aim to address scalability concerns of vector applications and provide robust mechanisms for managing roles and privileges to restrict access to sensitive data.