Q: What are CockroachDB's top competitors?

Amazon Aurora , Google Cloud Spanner , and YugabyteDB are common alternatives for CockroachDB.

Question 1

What is CockroachDB?

Accepted Answer

CockroachDB is a distributed SQL database from Cockroach Labs in New York. It is designed to give users resilient, horizontal scale across multiple clouds with always-on availability and data partitioned by location. CockroachDB scales horizontally without reconfiguration or need for a massive architectural overhaul.

CockroachDB Core is open-source, while the Enterprise edition is not but includes additional features (e.g. distributed backup and restore, geo-partitioning, etc.). Finally, CockroachCloud contains Enterprise edition features but is fully managed, presenting managed cluster configuration, automated managed backup, upgrades, and 24x7 alerting.

Question 2

What are CockroachDB's top competitors?

Accepted Answer

Amazon Aurora, Google Cloud Spanner, and YugabyteDB are common alternatives for CockroachDB.

Question 3

Who uses CockroachDB?

Accepted Answer

The most common users of CockroachDB are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).