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CockroachDB Overview

What is CockroachDB?

CockroachDB is a distributed SQL database designed for speed, scale, and survival. Scale Fast: CockroachDB automatically distributes data and workload demand. Break free from manual sharding and complex workarounds. Survive Disaster: Cockroach DB is architected to handle unpredictability and survive machine, data center, and region failures. Thrive Everywhere: CockroachDB lets you scale across multiple regions and tie data to a location to ensure peak performance for local and global deployments. Row-level controls also help safeguard your business against ever-changing data privacy laws.

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Cockroach Labs helps developers build and deploy scalable applications that can survive datacenter-scale outages.


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Cockroach Labs is a technology company that specializes in cloud-native distributed database solutions. Their flagship product, CockroachDB, is designed to simplify database management while providing high availability, scalability, and strong consistency across global deployments. The platform is built to handle large volumes of data with resilience and fault tolerance, making it suitable for modern applications. Cockroach Labs offers both open-source and enterprise versions of their database, catering to a wide range of business needs. For more information, visit their website at https://www.cockroachlabs.com/.


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Recent CockroachDB Reviews

K Madhusudan C.
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K Madhusudan C.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
4.0 out of 5
"Distributed SQL database designed for scalability and high availability"
Horizontal scalability of the cockroach DB allows us to add more nodes to the cluster easily based on the data growth. Built-in high availability ...
Benjamin Y.
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Benjamin Y.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"Great Open-Source Database Product"
I have an option to evaluate this product using an open source option and take some university courses to educate myself on how to use the database...
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Sohail G.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Best postgre database"
Basically cockroachdb is easy to use and it is open source distributed database. It accepts complex architectures which makes it globally accepted....
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What do you like best about CockroachDB?

There are multiple benefits of using CockroachDB, however, some of the best features which I like the most are: Ideal for ACID consistent transaction requirement, create multiple data copies across multiple nodes to provide the highest availability in case some other node goes down or fails. Robust SQL Interface, don't need to learn a new dialect for administering data. You can easily scale it and couple it as per your application necessities without much hectic as it balances data automatically as more nodes are added. Operational Simplicity is another great benefit of using CockroachDB. Due to which a cluster can easily be started using a few commands along with data replication to multiple regions. Focus on taking advantage of cloud scale and developed primarily for cloud-based applications making it perfect for modern-day requirements. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CockroachDB?

Though it supports most of the Postgres SQL dialect, still it lacks support for some very useful Postgres queries which is a major drawback. Moreover, as the complexity increases it can lead to difficulty in large-scale data querying and can cause frequent crashes. Due to the major focus encompassing strong consistency & availability it results in multiple data replication. Overall the performance becomes considerably slow which can be a major drawback depending on the application requirements and architecture. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering CockroachDB:

Excellent choice for applications requirement focusing around maximum availability and strongly consistent ACID transactions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is CockroachDB solving and how is that benefiting you?

CockroachDB ensures the highest data availability which is the most crucial requirement for some use-cases. It creates multiple data replications across multiple regions, so that system data remains available irrespective of any disaster/ node failure. Moreover, it presents a very easy mechanism to scale nodes and simply engage with the existing architecture. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about CockroachDB?

Best documentation from CockroachDB helps adoption in a faster manner and DB works exceedingly better than expected. Postgres compatibility is really done in such a great manner that migrating from Postgres to CockroachDB was pretty easy than expected. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CockroachDB?

None as of now. My application needs do not get me into a state where I feel like i dislike to not have any needed feature in CockroachDB. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Reliable and works well. Would definitely recommend others to consider CockroachDB usage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is CockroachDB solving and how is that benefiting you?

My application was initially developed with Postgres and we decided to shift to CockroachDB for its Automated scaling, failover and repair feature and its compatibility with postgres so that our migration would be easier. It exactly solved our needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about CockroachDB?

I like it auto replicating which makes it hard to kill.

We are using this where high traffic is going on , so if one node crash we are still operational.

And it's SQL is just like postgreDB.

It can be used on heavy traffic project.

It's Auto replication features provide high abilities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CockroachDB?

Few features like concat is not available for community. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is CockroachDB solving and how is that benefiting you?

CockroachDB is helping us on high availability.

High amount of data can be handled. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about CockroachDB?

Distributed SQL DB with focus on OLTP

The best feature of Cockroach DB is it is managed database ,

Horizontal Scalabilty which is very helpful as in modern world of stateful application .

Cockroach DB is platform-agonisitic

Multi Active Availability Database

Geo-replication startegy

It support all modern languages include Go , Python , JS Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CockroachDB?

Large DB cluster requires manual start which is the drawback in production ready env Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering CockroachDB:

Company who is looking for platform-agonistic Database with geo-replication startegy with consistency can go with Cockroach DB Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is CockroachDB solving and how is that benefiting you?

Scalabilty of Database

multi-availability with geo-replication

Strong Consistency with ACID Transaction Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sushant P.
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What do you like best about CockroachDB?

The initial setup, how straight forward it is to get started with the globally distributed data store. Beats everything I have tried so far from Oracle to Cassandra DB! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CockroachDB?

Missing capabilities to create SQL functions. They a very handy to manage complex relationships or to manipulate large data sets - instead of having to pull them in the application layer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is CockroachDB solving and how is that benefiting you?

Serving customer data, all local to them across the globe. Helped us achieve simplify the architecture, quick adoption of a truly globally distributed database right from PoC to MVP to now under development for production. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Gowtham C.
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What do you like best about CockroachDB?

High Availability feature, and easy to manage Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CockroachDB?

Havent found anything as of now. May be exploring more will help Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is CockroachDB solving and how is that benefiting you?

backup and restore of db is not required all the time with cockraoch db which is manditory step with all dbs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about CockroachDB?

Found good as distributed, and gets updates frequently Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CockroachDB?

Performance issue regarding transactional support with java Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is CockroachDB solving and how is that benefiting you?

Not solving any problems of cockroach. Used with containerized apps which is great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about CockroachDB?

Feature rich, has great online tutorials and Cockroach University.

Wish this was around 20 years ago! ACID compliant. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CockroachDB?

It can be simple but gets complex quite quickly as you start using Geolocation features, i guess there is a steep learning curve but worth it to master the advanced features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is CockroachDB solving and how is that benefiting you?

Distributed data that has all the bells and whistles. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about CockroachDB?

The most helpful is how easy you can setup a cockroach DB with a few steps. Also their support can be absolutely helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CockroachDB?

An upside is that some of their features are only in enterprise edition. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering CockroachDB:

The benefits are many. Try to use it and you'll probably earn from it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is CockroachDB solving and how is that benefiting you?

Strongly-consistent ACID transactions is a big feature for a distributed SQL, such as cockroach DB. You also do not need to care about how much you may need to scale your app in the future. The DB can handle this for sure Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about CockroachDB?

Data Distribution

Access mechanism

ACID guarantee Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CockroachDB?

Features are great did not find any conflict yet Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is CockroachDB solving and how is that benefiting you?

Can handle Huge Data store with distributed trx

Strong Trx features Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.