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CockroachDB vs Weaviate Enterprise Cloud comparison

 

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Executive Summary

Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

CockroachDB
Ranking in Vector Databases
19th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
13
Ranking in other categories
Relational Databases Tools (17th), Database Management Systems (DBMS) (11th)
Weaviate Enterprise Cloud
Ranking in Vector Databases
16th
Average Rating
10.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.0
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2026, in the Vector Databases category, the mindshare of CockroachDB is 2.0%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Weaviate Enterprise Cloud is 2.5%, up from 2.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Vector Databases Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Weaviate Enterprise Cloud2.5%
CockroachDB2.0%
Other95.5%
Vector Databases
 

Featured Reviews

SC
Manager, Software Engineering at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Provides developer-friendly environment with robust security and cost-efficiency
The platform should provide a UI feature where users have the ability to manage it. The CockroachDB platform should have a chatbot where users can inquire about pricing or seek solutions for queries, rather than relying on email support. The current UI only provides SQL playground, which is technical. There should be a UI playground where users with limited technical knowledge can run and update queries, similar to phpMyAdmin or Adminer. Latency optimization could be improved for globally distributed applications, particularly in query routing. For multi-region deployment, CockroachDB requires at least three plus replicas across data centers to achieve strong consistency across regions, which increases infrastructure costs including compute, storage, and networking. The disadvantages include cost-efficiency with multi-region deployment and schema migration speed, which should be faster compared to other drivers. The query optimizer should handle complex queries better through the UI interface.
John Venpin - PeerSpot reviewer
Founder at Intelligensi.ai
Rapid prototyping has transformed our city intelligence search into reliable production services
Weaviate Enterprise Cloud helps us achieve those results in Inteligencity Signal with an excellent SDK. The SDK allows developers to integrate with the cloud solution so that the search is very accurate, but also relatively simple to set up. There is not only speed and accuracy, but ease of setup, provided you are a developer. The SDK is the primary reason why we are using Weaviate Enterprise Cloud. Weaviate Enterprise Cloud is a good all-round product. The support is excellent. I have spoken to people there directly when we have had issues early on, but they were rectified. They also innovate, constantly creating updates and providing new features. They do not stand still. The best features Weaviate Enterprise Cloud offers include the good SDK, speed, and scaling. It is easy to scale as you can go from zero to massive scaling without encountering issues. Regarding Weaviate Enterprise Cloud's governance and security, it is good and pretty standard, with nothing that stands out security-wise. The standard approach makes things easy to integrate with what we are doing. We have not had any security issues, and we are not anticipating any. Regarding Weaviate Enterprise Cloud's accuracy and reliability of output, it is excellent. The reliability of output is very good, and it allows considerable tweaking as well, so we can be very specific in our requirements. The SDK is really excellent, so we can tweak responses and our use of it.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
16%
Educational Organization
11%
University
7%
Outsourcing Company
7%
Comms Service Provider
14%
University
10%
Financial Services Firm
7%
Energy/Utilities Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business7
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise5
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Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with CockroachDB?
The platform should provide a UI feature where users have the ability to manage it. The CockroachDB platform should have a chatbot where users can inquire about pricing or seek solutions for querie...
What is your primary use case for CockroachDB?
We have been using CockroachDB for the last two years. From 2023, we started working on a product similar to Google Capture. We decided to work with CockroachDB with Hasura. Hasura is a UI for the ...
What advice do you have for others considering CockroachDB?
The tech support deserves a rating of nine out of ten. My overall rating for CockroachDB is 8 out of 10.
What needs improvement with Weaviate Enterprise Cloud?
It would be beneficial to have a way to do an optimized comparison between the embeddings that I have and the embeddings that exist in the vector database.
What is your primary use case for Weaviate Enterprise Cloud?
We are a review website for enterprise IT. We publish reviews for other people to read, either publicly or anonymously. We are also working directly with Weaviate Enterprise Cloud to help them bett...
What advice do you have for others considering Weaviate Enterprise Cloud?
The documentation was excellent and provided a good fit for what we needed to do, including having a hosted service and cloud service with the possibility to have a hybrid search. These features co...
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

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1. KLM Royal Dutch Airlines 2. Rabobank 3. Philips 4. ING Bank 5. ABN AMRO Bank 6. Booking.com 7. TomTom 8. Randstad 9. Heineken 10. Shell 11. Unilever 12. ASML 13. Ahold Delhaize 14. DSM 15. AkzoNobel 16. VodafoneZiggo 17. NXP Semiconductors 18. Signify 19. Wolters Kluwer 20. Adyen 21. Aegon 22. Arcadis 23. ASR Nederland 24. BAM Group 25. Boskalis 26. Corbion 27. Fugro 28. Galapagos 29. GrandVision 30. IMCD Group 31. Kendrion 32. OCI
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