CockroachDB gets database migration tool, as CockroachDB Serverless launches
Cockroach Labs, a company founded by ex-Googlers, has added a new database migration tool, dubbed Molt, to its open source, fault-tolerant, distributed SQL database CockroachDB, in order to ease any complexities arising out of the entire database migration process.
The new tool, which gets its name from the process of new growth in an insect's lifecycle and also from a term for the formal training and onboarding process of new employees within a company (known as Model for Optimal Learning and Transfer), is expected to ease migration roadblocks by offering features such as a new schema conversion tool that identifies and fixes incompatibilities between the source database and CockroachDB, the company said.