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Positive Experience switching PostgreSQL to CockroachDB
What do you like best about the product?
We integrated CockroachDB into our existing analytics service stack, which relies on PostgreSQL connections, without encountering any issues. Everything worked immediately without needing any code modifications, workarounds, or special configurations.
What do you dislike about the product?
Based on our experience to date using it for our analytics platform, we haven't identified any dislikes
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We were able to launch our analytics service into production quickly and without initial cost using CockroachDB, which was a major advantage.
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An amazing distributed sql db
What do you like best about the product?
The ease of use offered by the cloud options and the capabilities of the self hosted option.
What do you dislike about the product?
Maybe I lack experience with concurrent use of the DB, but sometimes the default config causes me trouble and I need to change it.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Currently we have a few products and cockroachdb is the default solution for db we use.
Get out of the way and let me work!
What do you like best about the product?
CockroachDB does what a database should do. Just sit there and hold my data reliably without me having to babysit. No worrying about partitioning. I don't care about servers going up or down or load balancers. I don't care if a new version is available. I just keep my schema up to date. Perform my CRUD operations and get on with building my business.
And did I mention the support? Recently I had an issue where backups to an S3 compatible bucket stopped working. Within 24 hours I was on a call with a product manager talking through the issue to understand exactly what happened and what my recommended path forward would be. Yes, by running a serverless database in the cloud as a non-enterprise I am giving up some level of control, which is what happened here when they upgraded to the latest AWS S3 SDK that had some incompatible headers, but the tradeoff is that I have zero operational headaches to deal with.
The last feature that works perfectly with my business model is the pay-as-you-go model where I can spin up as many clusters and databases as I like without getting nailed for every instance. I am in early days and I'm constantly spinning up new clusters for testing or very small customers. When I can create an isolated cluster for a customer and it only costs me a few dollars a month that's a huge win.
And did I mention the support? Recently I had an issue where backups to an S3 compatible bucket stopped working. Within 24 hours I was on a call with a product manager talking through the issue to understand exactly what happened and what my recommended path forward would be. Yes, by running a serverless database in the cloud as a non-enterprise I am giving up some level of control, which is what happened here when they upgraded to the latest AWS S3 SDK that had some incompatible headers, but the tradeoff is that I have zero operational headaches to deal with.
The last feature that works perfectly with my business model is the pay-as-you-go model where I can spin up as many clusters and databases as I like without getting nailed for every instance. I am in early days and I'm constantly spinning up new clusters for testing or very small customers. When I can create an isolated cluster for a customer and it only costs me a few dollars a month that's a huge win.
What do you dislike about the product?
The mot difficult thing about working with CockroachDB is learning how to think differently about the operational aspects. You have to accept that you are going to lose some level of control if you want to the Serverless cost effective model. Another challenge I've faced is that although there is a high level of Postgres protocol compatibility there are enough differences that you can't assume a zero effort lift and shift.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It provides a reliable database with no operational responsibilities for me.
Distributed SQL database designed for scalability and high availability
What do you like best about the product?
Horizontal scalability of the cockroach DB allows us to add more nodes to the cluster easily based on the data growth.
Built-in high availability features that make it resilient to node failures using its automatic data replication and failover mechanism
Built-in high availability features that make it resilient to node failures using its automatic data replication and failover mechanism
What do you dislike about the product?
It is resource-intensive and consumes high CPU, memory, and storage. Sometimes there are latency issues too.
Setting up and configuring for the first time is a bit complex.
Also, it has a limited ecosystem
Setting up and configuring for the first time is a bit complex.
Also, it has a limited ecosystem
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
High availability is the main problem that it solves and it has become geo-distributed applications where we were storing huge amounts of metadata that was required across the regions. Due to these, we were able to achieve low latency and high available across regions.
Great Open-Source Database Product
What do you like best about the product?
I have an option to evaluate this product using an open source option and take some university courses to educate myself on how to use the database product. From there, I can figure out which projects I plan to use it for (specifically anything business-related or personal / hobby projects).
What do you dislike about the product?
I'm not sure as I am continuing to explore more of the product and I hope that there isn't too many limitations when it comes to adding specific data that I would need to create the database.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The fact that I can get started for free to evaluate CockroachDB right away. Although the limitation is up to 5GB, that is all I would really need for a starter project and for evaluation. Evidently, they also offer a pay-as-you-go plan, which is also similar to other companies.
Best postgre database
What do you like best about the product?
Basically cockroachdb is easy to use and it is open source distributed database. It accepts complex architectures which makes it globally accepted. It's best feature is geo partitioning into it's clusters. Support team is so awesome that they solve problems in matter of minutes.
What do you dislike about the product?
Though CockroachDB is an open source , there ain't any forum except stack overflow. It's setup is slightly complex from others. Other than that everything works fine.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use CockroachDB for Distributed storage of complex data for high reliability and high performance.
Best in class
What do you like best about the product?
CockroachDB is the only database we could find that had a truly global architecture. CockroachDB speaks PostgreSQL, so it was very easy to integrate with our existing systems.
What do you dislike about the product?
The initial pricing was very steep, however, this has since been addressed with their cloud-based free tier. Great for bootstrapping development. There is a small number of missing features from PostgreSQL, however, we have not needed any of these.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Our team was unable to find a database that scaled globally until we met the CockroachDB team. We can serve customers at near real-time from anywhere in the world, and never have to worry about whether our database implementation can handle it.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
CockroachDB is best in class for global databases. Chat to their team, they are amazing.
Powerfull DB as services
What do you like best about the product?
CockroachDB have best support and response very fast
What do you dislike about the product?
Still don't have respective support in indonesia
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Large data handle by CockroachDB and have powerfull DB and less latency
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If have large data cockrach will help with low latency
Easy to deploy fully distributed ACID database
What do you like best about the product?
How easy is to deploy a full distributed ACID database.
What do you dislike about the product?
Had to figure it later that some queries in your application aren't aligned with the system expectation causing production outages.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The problem of having a multi-region distributed ACID database with not that much operations maintenance.
A robust distributed db
What do you like best about the product?
It is a distributed database and it is a opensourced product. It works really well in cloud environments like AWS, azure etc. The installation and configuration is fairly simple.
What do you dislike about the product?
The cockroach db should have been had a better compatibility with the application loadbalancers as well. Although it is used for the networking loadbalancers it has the downside of not routing on the app layer
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I am using cockroach db for distributed database cluster for high availability and high performance. I am using it for building production grade applications.
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