User Reviews of CockroachDB & MySQL

Updated March 2024

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CockroachDB review

Antonio Tringali
Antonio Tringali
Software Engineer at a consultancy with self employed
Open source with extensive documentation and a University for training
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...
MySQL review

Patryk Golabek
Patryk Golabek
CTO at Translucent Computing Inc
Good beginner base but it should have better support for backups
As for what can be improved, right now we don't use the MySQL cluster. There is a MySQL cluster that you can run in a standalone mode, like a single database or you can do it in a cluster master-slave implementation. The cluster is not the best when it comes to MySQL. That's why we switched to MariaDB. For that simple reason that the...

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