Qoria, a global edtech leader, has adopted CockroachDB as its distributed SQL database to power its unified platform bringing together schools, families, and communities. The company's mission to protect children online requires real-time access to accurate user, classroom, and school directory information, which is vital for monitoring student online behavior, enforcing filtering policies, and powering parent notifications. Qoria's original PostgreSQL deployment struggled to keep up with the growing demand, leading to performance bottlenecks and availability concerns. After evaluating several options, including Google Spanner, CockroachDB emerged as the best fit for their needs, prioritizing 24/7 availability, horizontal scaling, strong consistency, ACID transactions, elasticity, and low total cost of ownership. Qoria built a new platform service from scratch using CockroachDB and Go, hosted on Google Kubernetes Engine, which simplifies its architecture and improves local development experience. With CockroachDB's resilient architecture, Qoria can ensure its systems remain always available, even as demand surges. The company is now exploring ways to further reduce latency across regions and evaluating the Standard Tier clusters more broadly as a cost-optimization strategy, with plans to leverage CockroachDB's multi-region clustering and AI-supporting features like semantic search to drive better user experiences.