# Built to Scale: How Nexxiot Delivers Always-On Global IoT with CockroachDB

DevFeed: [Built to Scale: How Nexxiot Delivers Always-On Global IoT with CockroachDB](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/built-to-scale-how-nexxiot-delivers-always-on-global-iot-with-cockroachdb-23800.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://cockroachlabs.com/blog/nexxiot-always-on-cockroachdb>)

Author: David Weiss

Published: 2025-05-30T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Cockroach Labs](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/cockroach-labs.md>)

Topics: [CockroachDB](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cockroachdb.md>), [Databases](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/databases.md>), [Internet of things](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/iot.md>), [SQL](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/sql.md>), [Availability](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/availability.md>), [consistency](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/consistency.md>), [Resilience](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/resilience.md>), [DynamoDB](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/dynamodb.md>), [elasticsearch](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/elasticsearch.md>), [Amazon RDS](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/amazon-rds.md>), [upgrade](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/upgrade.md>), [site-reliability-engineer](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/site-reliability-engineer.md>)

Tags: [amazon-rds](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/amazon-rds.md>), [availability](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/availability.md>), [cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloud.md>), [cockroachdb](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cockroachdb.md>), [consistency](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/consistency.md>), [database](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/database.md>), [databases](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/databases.md>), [devices](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/devices.md>), [distributed](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/distributed.md>), [dynamodb](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/dynamodb.md>), [elasticsearch](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/elasticsearch.md>), [iot](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/iot.md>), [resilience](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/resilience.md>), [site-reliability-engineer](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/site-reliability-engineer.md>), [sql](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/sql.md>), [upgrade](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/upgrade.md>)

## AI overview

The article describes how Nexxiot selected CockroachDB for a global transport operations platform using solar-powered IoT devices. It explains that the company moved beyond DynamoDB and Elasticsearch as its workloads grew, citing concerns about transactional consistency, query complexity, scalability, availability, and operational overhead.

## Source excerpt

When you're building a transport operations platform to optimize global fleets, "good enough" isn't good enough.