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CockroachDB pros and cons

Vendor: Cockroach Labs

4.0 out of 5

13 reviews
84% willing to recommend

Pros & Cons summary

CockroachDB enables efficient setup and deployment, with node syncing in just 0.54 milliseconds. It supports auto geo-partitioning, enhancing data residency solutions and resiliency. While excelling in RDBMS management and dynamic queries, it requires additional features for high availability. Integration challenges exist with CouchDB and PostgreSQL. Initial setup, pricing, and disaster recovery need improvement. Multi-region deployment involves higher infrastructure costs.

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PROS

CockroachDB is highly reliable and offers strong availability features.

It efficiently manages geo-partitioning and helps solve data residency issues.

The database is distributed, allowing node deployment across different regions.

CockroachDB excels in node syncing, supporting quick data handling with its resiliency features.

It provides valuable security features and fully supports SQL subsets.

CONS

CockroachDB requires improvements for distributed high availability and geo-partitioning.

Compatibility issues exist with PostgreSQL, particularly concerning full protocol support and connection strings.

Initial setup, pricing, and disaster recovery features need enhancement.

Serverless offering is perceived as confusing, and the platform's extensibility could be improved.

Multi-region deployment demands at least three replicas for strong consistency, increasing infrastructure costs.

CockroachDB Pros review quotes

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Oracle Cloud Infra Architect at Sterlite Technologies Ltd

May 25, 2020

The initial setup and deployment are simple.

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Mohammad Reza-Moradi

Master Student at a university with 11-50 employees

May 27, 2022

I use CockroachDB to test big data samples and to create the best structure for databases. We have four users and required 10 people for deployment and maintenance.

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CEO at Go Eve

Dec 19, 2022

CockroachDB is highly reliable.

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Victor AugustoDe Souza E Silva

Cloud Engineer at Leek Solucoes

Aug 15, 2023

The availability and the easy to use feature is the most valuable. The documentation is also good.

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Technology Lead at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

Nov 15, 2023

The tool's most valuable feature is node syncing, which takes only 0.54 milliseconds.

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Antonio Tringali

Software Engineer at a consultancy with self employed

Nov 15, 2023

The subset of SQL that my client is using is completely supported.

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Co-Founder at Afriziki

Nov 27, 2023

The product has valuable security features.

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

Nov 24, 2023

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

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Staff DBRE at SecurityScorecard

Jul 11, 2024

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.

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Student at Univerzita obrany

Nov 12, 2024

The most valuable feature is that CockroachDB is a distributed database, which can deploy nodes running in different regions.

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CockroachDB Cons review quotes

PN

Oracle Cloud Infra Architect at Sterlite Technologies Ltd

May 25, 2020

We are looking for more features to support distributed high availability and geo-partitioning.

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Mohammad Reza-Moradi

Master Student at a university with 11-50 employees

May 27, 2022

Cockroach does not support all types of protocols. I need to improve it myself to support a CouchDB on my network.

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CEO at Go Eve

Dec 19, 2022

The closer they can make CockroachDB to being completely compatible with Postgres, the better. It's almost compatible, but not completely. If it was, it would be nice to just be able to use Postgres libraries without any fiddling.

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Victor AugustoDe Souza E Silva

Cloud Engineer at Leek Solucoes

Aug 15, 2023

The initial setup and pricing could be improved.

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Technology Lead at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

Nov 15, 2023

CockroachDB needs to improve store processes.

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Antonio Tringali

Software Engineer at a consultancy with self employed

Nov 15, 2023

I find the serverless offer a bit confusing.

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Co-Founder at Afriziki

Nov 27, 2023

The platform could be more extensible.

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

Nov 24, 2023

The product must improve its disaster recovery features.

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Staff DBRE at SecurityScorecard

Jul 11, 2024

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.

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Student at Univerzita obrany

Nov 12, 2024

I would like CockroachDB to have more compatibility with PostgreSQL, especially with the connection string and technical integrations.

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