We performed a comparison between CockroachDB and Exasol based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Relational Databases Tools solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."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."
"The best feature of CockroachDB is the ability to keep the nodes in different locations."
"The subset of SQL that my client is using is completely supported."
"The most valuable features of the solution are its resiliency features and the geo-partitioning capabilities."
"CockroachDB is highly reliable."
"The availability and the easy to use feature is the most valuable. The documentation is also good."
"The product has valuable security features."
"The tool's most valuable feature is node syncing, which takes only 0.54 milliseconds."
"The most valuable feature of Exasol is its speed."
"Performance is a top priority, and it excels in this aspect."
"The speed is very good compared to other databases, like SQL Server or Oracle."
"It is easy to scale."
"The solution is hands-off; you set it up insert your data and it self tunes queries."
"We mainly chose Exasol for its performance reasons."
"Its speed is great."
"We can quickly scale the solution as it works on an MPP system."
"The platform could be more extensible."
"I find the serverless offer a bit confusing."
"CockroachDB needs to improve store processes."
"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."
"The product must improve its disaster recovery features."
"Cockroach does not support all types of protocols. I need to improve it myself to support a CouchDB on my network."
"We are looking for more features to support distributed high availability and geo-partitioning."
"The initial setup and pricing could be improved."
"You have to install Exasol drivers, and it's not easy to find or implement a driver into different systems."
"It's not cloud-native so many maintenance operations require downtime."
"It would be beneficial if the updates would occur more often."
"The only area where we found it could improve was in custom role creation and security, and it was difficult to work with."
"There are limited resources available to help me resolve the issue with Exasol."
"They should improve the security features for MPP processing."
"Lacks a cloud-based platform."
"They don't talk very well to with other products when it comes to connectivity. Integration is lacking."
CockroachDB is ranked 9th in Relational Databases Tools with 10 reviews while Exasol is ranked 12th in Relational Databases Tools with 8 reviews. CockroachDB is rated 8.0, while Exasol is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of CockroachDB writes "Open source with extensive documentation and a University for training". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Exasol writes "Fast query processing and easy-to-store all the data". CockroachDB is most compared with Oracle Database, MySQL, Citus Data, Amazon Aurora and SQL Server, whereas Exasol is most compared with SQL Server, SAP HANA, Vertica, Oracle Database In-Memory and MySQL. See our CockroachDB vs. Exasol report.
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