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CockroachDB Room for Improvement

Dang Quy Tai - PeerSpot reviewer
Student at Univerzita obrany

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

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Antonio Tringali - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Engineer at a consultancy with self employed

I find the serverless offer a bit confusing. The price is a function of the maximum database size.

A single SELECT can use a number of request units, for example. If the throughput is high enough, you could run out of request units and be throttled if you do not pay attention to how your database is used.

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Umang Singh - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Principal Architect ,Technology Strategy at Discover Financial Services

CockroachDB's automatic failover capability is an area of concern where improvements are required.

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

The product is not an enterprise-level solution. The product must improve its disaster recovery features. It must also improve on support, logging, and backup restore.

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SanjeevSingh4 - PeerSpot reviewer
Staff DBRE at SecurityScorecard

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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Arucy Lionel - PeerSpot reviewer
Co-Founder at Afriziki

The platform could be more extensible. At the moment, I have to use Postgres for extension issues. There needs to be better integration features. Additionally, the product’s Change Data Capture Integrations with tools such as Kafka needs improvement.

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Aman-Narang - PeerSpot reviewer
Technology Lead at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

CockroachDB needs to improve store processes. 

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Hugh Sheehy - PeerSpot reviewer
CEO at Go Eve

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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Mohammad Reza-Moradi - PeerSpot reviewer
Master Student at a university with 11-50 employees

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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Oracle Cloud Infra Architect at Sterlite Technologies Ltd

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

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TM
Executive Director / R&D Dept. General Manager at Riz Inc.

As additional features, I wish there was Japanese documentation, instead of just English. I know how powerful and simple CockroachDB can be for many Japanese people with the correct documentation.

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Victor AugustoDe Souza E Silva - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Engineer at Leek Solucoes

The initial setup and pricing could be improved. 

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CockroachDB
July 2025
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