Cockroach Labs Says Db2 Migration Takes Two Days and $4,172 in Tokens
Summary
Cockroach Labs says its MOLT Sinai agent pipeline now migrates IBM Db2 databases to CockroachDB, work the company estimates took nine months and about $160,000 for Oracle in 2024. Db2 took under two days and $4,172 in tokens. The pipeline merged 1,238 pull requests with 7 reverts over five months.
Key Points
- Cockroach Labs says MOLT Sinai has consumed just over $135,000 in Claude tokens since April, about $84 per GitHub issue.
- The company reports the Sinai repository holds roughly 1,570 commits, 85% authored by the hospital pipeline itself.
- Cockroach Labs requires human approval for every merge, saying it needed that layer before trusting code for customers.