TL;DR - CockroachDB
- CockroachDB is a distributed SQL database that survives failures and scales horizontally
- It provides PostgreSQL compatibility with automatic sharding and multi-region deployment
- Free Serverless tier, Dedicated clusters from $295/month
Pricing: Free plan available
Best for: Growing teams
Score: 88/100
Pricing Plans
free trialMost Popular
Basic
Free
Free tier
- 10GB storage
- 50M RUs
- Serverless
Standard
Free
Production
- Auto-scaling
- 99.99% SLA
- Backups
Enterprise
Free
Custom
- Dedicated
- SSO
- Premium support
About CockroachDB
CockroachDB brings distributed SQL to applications that need both the familiarity of SQL and the resilience of distributed systems. Data survives datacenter failures automatically. Scale globally without giving up SQL.
PostgreSQL compatibility means existing tools work. Geo-partitioning keeps data where regulations require. The cloud service handles operations.
Applications needing globally distributed databases with strong consistency choose CockroachDB when SQL matters and downtime isn't acceptable.
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CockroachDB FAQ
Core is free and open source. Serverless free tier on CockroachDB Cloud. Standard $0.20/vCPU-hour. Dedicated pricing varies.
CockroachDB is a distributed SQL database. PostgreSQL-compatible with horizontal scaling and global distribution. Survives failures automatically.
CockroachDB scales horizontally and survives failures. PostgreSQL is simpler for single-node. CockroachDB for global scale; PostgreSQL for most use cases.
Global applications needing low latency everywhere. Multi-region deployments. Applications requiring high availability without complexity.