Case Study: SALTO KS achieves 24/7 global, outage‑proof access management with Cockroach Labs

How SALTO built a cloud-based access management system on CockroachDB

SALTO KS is a leader in cloud-based access management, providing wireless electronic locks and keys-as-a-service to customers in 40+ countries. Faced with a legacy SQL Server system that required downtime for schema changes and upgrades and an active‑passive setup that complicated development, SALTO KS needed a cloud-native, active‑active datastore that could collect device data in real time and guarantee customers could still unlock doors during outages. They evaluated and chose CockroachDB from Cockroach Labs to meet those requirements.

Cockroach Labs delivered CockroachDB (initially enterprise, then CockroachDB Dedicated) with built‑in multi‑region survivability, change data capture (CDC), and automatic horizontal scaling, allowing SALTO KS to run across three regions and survive an entire region outage without user impact. The solution decoupled developers from operational complexity, reduced ops overhead, and supported spiky workloads (including an Apple integration), while enabling SALTO KS to serve ~40M daily users across 40+ countries and over 5M devices — improving developer productivity and saving time and resources.

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Gorka Lerchundi

Engineering Manager & Tech Lead