CockroachDB Reviews

Name: CockroachDB
Brand: Cockroach
Rating: 4 (11 reviews)

4.0 out of 5

11 reviews
81% willing to recommend

565 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 #11 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 38% 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

We have a legal and compliance team. We have a compliance request that the personal data from the EU must stay in the EU, and the data from Singapore must stay in Singapore. CockroachDB is a distributed database system. It exactly fits our requirement to keep the data isolated. At the same time, we…

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CockroachDB mindshare

As of November 2024, the mindshare of CockroachDB in the Relational Databases Tools category stands at 3.0%, up from 2.3% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Key learnings from peers

Valuable Features

"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."
"The best feature of CockroachDB is the ability to keep the nodes in different locations."

Room for Improvement

"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."
"The platform could be more extensible."

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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