CockroachDB Reviews

Name: CockroachDB
Brand: Cockroach
Rating: 4.0 (12 reviews)

4.0 out of 5

12 reviews
83% willing to recommend

566 followers

What is CockroachDB?

CockroachDB is a distributed SQL database built on a transactional and strongly-consistent key-value store. It scales horizontally; survives disk, machine, rack, and even datacenter failures with minimal latency disruption and no manual intervention; supports strongly-consistent ACID transactions; and provides a familiar SQL API for structuring, manipulating, and querying data.

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CockroachDB is the #12 ranked solution in top Relational Databases. PeerSpot users give CockroachDB an average rating of 8.0 out of 10. CockroachDB is most commonly compared to SQL Server: CockroachDB vs SQL Server. CockroachDB is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 72% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a financial services firm, accounting for 39% of all views.

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Featured reviews

Antonio Tringali

Software Engineer at a consultancy with self employed

I am a freelancer. A client of mine wanted a solution that would allow them to scale yet not abandon the familiar PostgreSQL front-end (and rewrite a part of their source code). Scalability aside, CockroachDB is a fine way forward from PostgreSQL and is not changing the client source code part of the system. If you are lucky and you do not use newer features from recent versions of PostgreSQL or PostgreSQL extensions, it's fine. There are nice-to-have features for big organizations like regional tables. At the moment, my client simply does not use these. However, the serverless offer from CockroachDB is reacting well as data grows.

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Umang Singh

Senior Principal Architect ,Technology Strategy at Discover Financial Services

My company uses CockroachDB since it is a resilient distributed database The most valuable features of the solution are its resiliency features and the geo-partitioning capabilities. CockroachDB's automatic failover capability is an area of concern where improvements are required. I have been…

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Suresh Ayyavoo

Chief Information Officer (CIO) at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

The tool is easily scalable. One of the reasons we chose it is its scalability. If a CPU hits 80%, by default, it can spin off new instances and provide quick support. Overall, we have 1000 people using the solution in our organization. We have 200 concurrent users. We plan to use it more in the future.

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CockroachDB mindshare

As of February 2025, the mindshare of CockroachDB in the Relational Databases Tools category stands at 3.5%, up from 2.4% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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PeerAnalyst reports

Type	Title	Date
Category	Relational Databases Tools	Feb 1, 2025	Download
Product	Reviews, tips, and advice from real users	Feb 1, 2025	Download
Comparison	CockroachDB vs SQL Server	Feb 1, 2025	Download
Comparison	CockroachDB vs Oracle Database	Feb 1, 2025	Download
Comparison	CockroachDB vs MySQL	Feb 1, 2025	Download

Title	Rating	Mindshare	Recommending
SQL Server	4.2	20.1%	93%	266 interviews Add to research
MySQL	4.1	8.4%	91%	148 interviews Add to research

Valuable Features

"The most valuable feature is that CockroachDB is a distributed database, which can deploy nodes running in different regions."
"What I like best is its ability to solve data residency issues. The main advantage is auto geo partitioning, built into the product. This means we don't have to spin up separate servers in each region, which would be much more costly."
"The most valuable features of the solution are its resiliency features and the geo-partitioning capabilities."

Room for Improvement

"I would like CockroachDB to have more compatibility with PostgreSQL, especially with the connection string and technical integrations."
"I think the engine itself could be improved. If you miss a partition key, it should be able to be modeled. This is where AI could be really helpful. For example, if a user is from Australia, the system should know to look for their data there first instead of searching in the US or another continent."
"The product must improve its disaster recovery features."

Pricing

"The solution's pricing is not cheap. However, the good thing is that customers are willing to pay for it if they want it."
"The product's price depends on the user's company and the contract model they enter into with CockroachDB. Depending on the contract model one enters into with CockroachDB, the product may or may not be expensive."
"The platform is affordable even for the enterprise version. It provides value for investment in terms of performance."

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