Available worldwide
What is CockroachDB?
A PostgreSQL-compatible, distributed SQL database providing strong consistency, high availability, and global compliance across cloud and on-premises deployments.
CockroachDB pricing
Plans, per-tier features and add-ons, dated and linked to live pricing. Pricing changes often; always verify at source before you rely on it.
Free tier (Basic) with 50M RUs/month. Standard from $0.18/hr (2 vCPU minimum), Advanced from $0.60/hr (4 vCPU minimum). No credit card required for Basic and Standard; $400 free credits available.
Basic
FreeFor smaller, bursty workloads up to 30K RU/sec (~60 vCPUs)
- storage
- 10 GiB/month
- request_units
- 50M/month
- On-demand compute and storage that scales to zero
- AWS and GCP multi-region support
- IP allowlist access control
- 99.99% availability
- Vector data integration with transactional data
- MCP, CLI and Agent Skills
Standard
For steady workloads at scale, up to 200 vCPUs
- compute
- up to 200 vCPUs
- storage
- up to 3 TiB
- Provisioned compute with instant scaling up to 200 vCPUs
- On-demand storage
- AWS and GCP multi-region support
- Private connectivity
- Datadog metrics and log export
- 99.99% availability
- Vector data integration
- MCP, CLI and Agent Skills
Advanced
For high-scale applications with advanced security and compliance requirements
- compute
- unlimited scaling
- storage
- unlimited up to 10 TiB per node
- Provisioned compute and storage with unlimited scaling
- AWS, GCP and Azure multi-region support for all regions
- Private connectivity
- Datadog metrics and log export
- Up to 99.999% availability
- Customer-managed encryption keys (CMEK) for PCI/HIPAA
- Row-level security
- Vector data integration
- MCP, CLI and Agent Skills
What CockroachDB does
The capabilities that matter for relational databases, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- SQL model
- Full SQL
- ACID transactions
- Full
- Highest isolation level
- Serializable
- Consistency
- Strong
- Horizontal scale
- Natively distributed
- Replication
- Consensus (Raft/Paxos)
- Automatic failover / HA
- ✓
- Deployment
- Managed
- Serverless / scale-to-zero
- ✓
- Wire compatibility
- Postgres protocol
- Extensions / plugins / UDFs
- ✗
- Licence class
- -
- JSON / document support
- ✓
- Geo / spatial
- -
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- CLI
- Web
- Cloud / SaaS
- Hybrid
- On-premise
- Self-hosted
Integrations (5)
Independently observed- Datadog
- Splunk
- Dynatrace
- New Relic
- Terraform
CockroachDB alternatives
Other relational databases we track, ranked by the same independent score.
The Vioscale score: one lens on the evidence
Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for CockroachDB, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Security Posture | 100 | 0.14 | 13.6 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 58 | 0.13 | 7.5 | ✓ |
| Pricing Transparency | 100 | 0.06 | 6.1 | ✓ |
| Github Activity | 39 | 0.15 | 5.9 | ✓ |
| Github Stars | 85 | 0.05 | 4.5 | ✓ |
| Reliability | 50 | 0.08 | 3.8 | ✓ |
| Price Level | 80 | 0.04 | 3.6 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 22 | 0.06 | 1.4 | ✓ |
| Release Cadence | 0 | 0.09 | 0.0 | - |
| Package Downloads | 0 | 0.04 | 0.0 | - |
| Stackoverflow Activity | 0 | 0.15 | 0.0 | - |
Computed . Re-weight it by intent, or see the full method.
All data & sourcesshow ↓
Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.
Activity
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Commits last 30d | 16 | mediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 65% |
Adoption
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Github stars | 32,341 | highsource · 2026-08-01 · 90% |
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | {"isolation":"serializable","sql_model":"full_sql","deployment":"managed","serverless":true,"consistency":"strong","replication":"consensus","extensibility":false,"json_document":true,"horizontal_scale":"distributed_native","acid_transactions":"full","automatic_failover":true,"wire_compatibility":"postgres"} | mediumsource · 2026-08-05 · 60% |
Integrations
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Count | 5 | mediumsource · 2026-08-05 · 60% |
Language
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Primary | Go | highsource · 2026-08-01 · 90% |
Market
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Availability | {"primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]} | highsource · 2026-08-05 · 75% |
Pricing
Reliability
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Sla pct | 99.999 | mediumsource · 2026-08-05 · 60% |