Software Engineer at a consultancy with self employed
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2023-11-15T14:41:00Z
Nov 15, 2023
For their use case, my client wanted a "certified" version that they would forget to administrate, and so, for the main database, they chose the serverless offer. For experimenting in-house they like to use the freely downloadable open source version, which is very easy to install. The price is irresistible, and if some crash happens there is a reliable backup in the cloud.
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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The solution's pricing is not cheap. However, the good thing is that customers are willing to pay for it if they want it.
For their use case, my client wanted a "certified" version that they would forget to administrate, and so, for the main database, they chose the serverless offer. For experimenting in-house they like to use the freely downloadable open source version, which is very easy to install. The price is irresistible, and if some crash happens there is a reliable backup in the cloud.
The pricing is good but can be made cheaper. I would rate the pricing a five out of ten.
I've used CockroachDB at a small scale on the free accounts because we are only testing.