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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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.
CockroachDB is inspired by Google’s Spanner and F1 technologies, and it’s completely open source.
CockroachDB Customers
Baidu, Kindred, Tierion, Heroic Labs, Gorgias
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What users are saying about CockroachDB pricing:
"I've used CockroachDB at a small scale on the free accounts because we are only testing."