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Comparison

CockroachDB vs MariaDB

On the evidence we track, CockroachDB leads this comparison with a composite score of 63/100. Scores are only directly comparable because these tools share a category; the full breakdown and every source is below.

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★CockroachDB63
MariaDB50
Score
Vioscale score
CockroachDB63 / 100medium · 66%
MariaDB50 / 100low · 43%
Pricing
Free tier
CockroachDB✓
MariaDB✓
Model
CockroachDBcommercial
MariaDBopen_source
Price level
CockroachDBlow
MariaDBfree
Transparent
CockroachDB✓
MariaDB✓
Integrations
Count
CockroachDB8
MariaDB17
Security
Disclosure policy
CockroachDB✓
MariaDB✓
Gdpr
CockroachDB✓
MariaDB✓
Hipaa
CockroachDB✓
MariaDB–
Iso27001
CockroachDB✓
MariaDB–
Pci
CockroachDB✓
MariaDB–
Scorecard
CockroachDB5.1
MariaDB4.7
Soc2
CockroachDB✓
MariaDB–
Vulnerabilities
Reliability
Sla pct
CockroachDB99.999
MariaDB–
Adoption
Dependent repos
CockroachDB235
MariaDB0
Github stars
CockroachDB32,415
MariaDB8,144
Activity
Commits last 30d
CockroachDB15
MariaDB100
Release
History
CockroachDB–
MariaDB20 items
License
Spdx
CockroachDB–
MariaDBGPL-2.0
Language
Primary
CockroachDBGo
MariaDBC++
Market
Availability

Capabilities

Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for relational databases. “-” means undocumented, not absent.

Core
SQL model
CockroachDBFull SQL
MariaDBFull SQL
Transactions
ACID transactions
CockroachDBFull
MariaDB-
Highest isolation level
CockroachDBSerializable
MariaDB-
Consistency
Consistency
CockroachDBStrong
MariaDBTunable
Scale
Horizontal scale
CockroachDBNatively distributed
MariaDBNatively distributed
Replication
Replication
CockroachDBConsensus (Raft/Paxos)
MariaDBSync
Availability
Automatic failover / HA
CockroachDB✓
MariaDB✓
Deployment
Deployment
CockroachDBManaged
MariaDB-
Serverless / scale-to-zero
CockroachDB✓
MariaDB-
Compatibility
Wire compatibility
CockroachDBPostgres protocol
MariaDBMySQL protocol
Extensibility
Extensions / plugins / UDFs
CockroachDB✗
MariaDB✓
Licensing
Licence class
CockroachDBSource-available (BSL/SSPL)
MariaDBCopyleft
Data types
JSON / document support
CockroachDB✗
MariaDB✓
Geo / spatial
CockroachDBNone
MariaDBNative

What each one is

The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.

CockroachDB

Leader

CockroachDB is a PostgreSQL-compatible distributed SQL database designed for global applications requiring high availability, automatic scaling, and strong consistency across data centers. It eliminates downtime, simplifies operations, and scales seamlessly without manual intervention.

Independently observed

MariaDB

A widely deployed open source database that evolved from MySQL while maintaining compatibility, offering advanced SQL capabilities, native vector search, pluggable storage engines, and multi-primary clustering for production workloads.

Independently observed

Pricing

List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.

CockroachDB

Leader
HybridFree tier30-day trial

Free tier available with $400 in free credits. Provisioned capacity and on-demand pricing models for production workloads.

  • BasicFree
as of verify ↗

MariaDB

Open sourceFree tier
as of verify ↗

Platform & deployment

Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.

Platforms
Web
CockroachDB✓
MariaDB✗
Windows
CockroachDB✗
MariaDB✓
Linux
CockroachDB✗
MariaDB✓
CLI
CockroachDB✓
MariaDB✗
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
CockroachDB✓
MariaDB✗
Self-hosted
CockroachDB✓
MariaDB✓
On-premise
CockroachDB✓
MariaDB✗
Hybrid
CockroachDB✓
MariaDB✗

Integrations

What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.

CockroachDB

Leader
15 total
  • Datadog
  • Splunk
  • Dynatrace
  • New Relic
  • Terraform
  • Vercel
  • HashiCorp
  • pgvector
  • AWS
  • GCP
  • Azure
  • Kubernetes
  • MOLT (Migration Tool)
  • PostgreSQL drivers
  • SQLAlchemy
Independently observed

MariaDB

17 total
  • MariaDB Connector/C
  • MariaDB Connector/Node.js
  • MariaDB Connector/ODBC
  • MariaDB Connector/J
  • MariaDB Connector/Python
  • MariaDB Connector/R2DBC
  • MariaDB Connector/C++
  • MySqlConnector for ADO.NET
  • ADO.NET Driver for MySQL
  • ODBC Driver for MySQL
  • JDBC Driver for MySQL
  • Node.js Driver for MySQL
  • C++ Driver for MySQL
  • C Driver for MySQL
  • C API for MySQL
  • PyMySQL
  • mysql-python
Independently observed

Comparison generated from independently-sourced facts. Every value links to its source and retrieval date. See the method.