# Why Squarespace migrated global data workloads from PostgreSQL to CockroachDB

DevFeed: [Why Squarespace migrated global data workloads from PostgreSQL to CockroachDB](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/why-squarespace-migrated-global-data-workloads-from-postgresql-to-cockroachdb-23819.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://cockroachlabs.com/blog/squarespace-metadata-postgresql-to-cockroachdb>)

Author: Becca Weng

Published: 2026-02-18T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

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

Topics: [CockroachDB](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cockroachdb.md>), [PostgreSQL](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/postgresql.md>), [Scalability](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/scalability.md>), [Replication](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/replication.md>), [Resilience](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/resilience.md>)

Tags: [backups](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/backups.md>), [cockroachdb](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cockroachdb.md>), [distributed](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/distributed.md>), [postgresql](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/postgresql.md>), [replication](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/replication.md>), [resilience](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/resilience.md>), [scalability](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/scalability.md>)

## AI overview

The article describes how Squarespace migrated global data workloads from PostgreSQL to CockroachDB. It presents PostgreSQL's single-primary model as a limiting factor for horizontal and multi-region scaling, resilience, upgrade operations, and observability, and describes CockroachDB's replication, automated failover, and horizontal scaling capabilities.

## Source excerpt

Every year at RoachFest, we hear directly from the teams running some of the most demanding data workloads in production. RoachFest 2025 was no different--except this year, a clear theme emerged across customer sessions: primary data and metadata are often mission-critical.