CockroachDB
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
2recommend
3warn against
Nov 7, 2025first mention
Sep 4, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“multi-master cockroach etc, you can maybe achieve 5 9s”
Caveats and dissent
“uses Cockroach which is now commercial”
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“after Cockroach changed their free tier license”
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Who recommends it in their own words
From the makers not counted in the ranking
“CRDB as a solution makes sense when you need to _guarantee_ that transactions are serializable and durable”
former Cockroach Labs employeeon “Ok, but does it scale?”
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All comments 18
“I benchmarked Postgres in single- and muti-node setup against CockroachDB a while ago”
“Traditional databases don’t do this which is why Cockroach wouldn’t have seen it.”
“One of the most popular distributed DB is Cockroach”
“vs a truly distributed DB like cockroach.”
“why they went with Cockroach DB for Oxide”
“uses Cockroach which is now commercial”
“CockroachDB experience”
“Stack: Go, Python, AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, CockroachDB, Redis, Terraform.”
“I use cockroachDB with local persistent volumes for it”
“I kept looking at what scaling would mean with CockroachDB or ScyllaDB and it scared me.”
“Oxide is maintaining their fork of Cockroach”
“Our tech stack: Go, CockroachDB, RocksDB, WebRTC, Raft, and Redis.”
“which all come with various downsides”
I was just reading a paper about compiling SQL queries (actually about a fast compilation technique that allows for full compilation to machine code that is suitable for SQL and WASM): https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3485513 Sounds like many DBs do some level of compilation for complex queries. I suspect this is because SQL has primitives that actually compute things (e.g. aggregations, sorts, etc.). But find does
“the open source version known as CockroachDB”
“after Cockroach changed their free tier license”
“multi-master cockroach etc, you can maybe achieve 5 9s”
“many have tried to make SQL scale efficiently (with some obvious caveats)”