CockroachDB

CockroachDB, by Cockroach Labs, is a distributed SQL database designed to scale horizontally and survive failures while keeping the familiar SQL interface and strong consistency of a relational database. It automatically replicates and distributes data across nodes (and regions), so applications get high availability, resilience to node or datacenter outages, and elastic scale without manual sharding. Wire-compatible with PostgreSQL, it lets teams use existing Postgres tools and drivers while gaining cloud-native distribution.

The platform targets demanding, mission-critical, and global workloads. It offers serializable, strongly consistent transactions across a distributed cluster; multi-region capabilities that pin data to geographies for low latency and data-residency/compliance; automatic rebalancing and self-healing when nodes fail; and online schema changes. CockroachDB Cloud provides fully managed Basic (serverless, request-unit-based), Standard, and Advanced tiers, while a self-hosted Enterprise option runs anywhere. Advanced adds compliance (PCI-DSS, HIPAA, SOC 2), CMEK, and Azure support for regulated, high-scale deployments.

CockroachDB serves engineering teams building applications that need global scale, high availability, and strong consistency — from fintech and retail to SaaS. CockroachDB Cloud pricing is usage-based: a Basic tier that starts free (request-unit-based, with a monthly free allowance) and scales with usage; a Standard tier from about $0.18 per vCPU-hour (2 vCPUs) for steady workloads; and an Advanced tier from about $0.60 per vCPU-hour (4 vCPUs) with enterprise compliance, plus custom Enterprise/self-hosted; new users get $400 in credits. It competes with Google Spanner, Amazon Aurora, PostgreSQL, and Yugabyte, differentiating on distributed SQL with Postgres compatibility and resilience.