Blog

News, technical deep-dives, and updates from the CortexDB team.

Enterprise2026-05-253 min read

Enterprise Security

How CortexDB approaches security for production deployments. We secure the platform using PASETO v4 bearer authentication, hierarchical scopes, and 4-tier capability stacks.

Enterprise2026-05-243 min read

Deployment Profiles

How CortexDB uses deployment profiles to gate enterprise controls. We support four profiles—startup, growth, enterprise, and custom—to match your operational maturity.

Benchmark2026-05-233 min read

Benchmark Results

How CortexDB performs on long-term memory benchmarks. We report 93.8% on LongMemEval-S using our lossless event-sourced architecture and 4-channel hybrid retrieval.

Enterprise2026-05-223 min read

Backups and Disaster Recovery

How CortexDB handles backups and disaster recovery. We utilize RocksDB checkpoints, object-store upload targets, and WAL archival to enable point-in-time recovery.

Enterprise2026-05-213 min read

Audit Trail

How CortexDB logs every API operation for compliance, security monitoring, and debugging. The system captures structured fields, supports SIEM export, and ensures verifiable deletion.

Architecture2026-05-204 min read

CortexDB Architecture

How CortexDB leverages a lossless event-sourced architecture, async knowledge graph enrichment, and 4-channel hybrid retrieval for AI agent memory.

Announcement2026-05-185 min read

Run CortexDB on Your Own Hardware in Under Five Minutes

v0.5.1 ships CortexDB as a Docker image and stripped Linux binaries — the same engine that powers CortexDB Cloud, now runnable inside your own VPC, your homelab, or your laptop.

Announcement2026-05-169 min read

CortexDB V1: The Experience Layer for AI Agents

V1 of CortexDB is live: 93.8% on LongMemEval-S (beating Mem0), 86.9% on LoCoMo, the five-layer memory model, hierarchical scopes, PASETO auth, and 31 integrations plus 16 connectors — built in 8 weeks.

Benchmark2026-05-1410 min read

CortexDB vs the Competition: A Production-Scale Memory Benchmark

A controlled internal comparison of CortexDB against an LLM-rewrite-on-write baseline across five production-scale scenarios. CortexDB reports 84.2% retrieval accuracy against the baseline's 31.8% at 1/337th the daily write-path cost.

Comparison2026-05-146 min read

CortexDB vs Mem0: An Architectural Comparison for AI Agent Memory

CortexDB and Mem0 take different approaches to AI agent memory. CortexDB ships lossless event-sourced memory. Mem0 defaults to LLM-extraction on writes.

Comparison2026-05-146 min read

CortexDB vs Zep: Architecture, Retrieval, and Multi-Tenancy Compared

CortexDB ships lossless event-sourced memory with 4-channel hybrid retrieval. Zep builds temporal knowledge graphs from chat and business data. Architecture, knowledge graph, and multi-tenancy compared.

Benchmark2026-05-029 min read

93.8% on LongMemEval-S: How CortexDB's Retrieval Stack Stacks Up

A single-run 93.8% on LongMemEval-S (469 of 500), running against the production CortexDB server with no in-memory shortcut. Pipeline walkthrough, per-category scores, leaderboard, and cost and latency analysis.

Tutorial2026-04-092 min read

How to Add Memory to Your Hermes Agent

A walkthrough of using CortexDB as a long-term memory provider for NousResearch's Hermes Agent — with persistent recall, background writes, and prefetching.

Tutorial2026-04-094 min read

Give Your OpenClaw Agent a Real Memory

OpenClaw turns Claude into a desktop coworker with eyes and hands. CortexDB gives that coworker a memory that survives restarts, machines, and weeks.

Tutorial2026-04-066 min read

Building an AI Companion with Perfect Memory

A step-by-step guide to building an AI companion that remembers everything — preferences, past conversations, decisions, and context — using OpenAI and CortexDB.

Announcement2026-04-035 min read

Introducing CortexDB: The Long-Term Memory Layer for AI Systems

Why we built an event-sourced memory layer for AI agents — durable memory, connected context, 31 integrations, 16 connectors, and production-ready scalability.