cockroachdb/cockroach
CockroachDB — the cloud native, distributed SQL database designed for high availability, effortless scale, and control over data placement. observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
77/100
- Activity 99
- Release rhythm 35
- Longevity 100
Flags: no_releases no_license
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 4592
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 7
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
32415 stars · 4097 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded
CockroachDB is a cloud-native distributed SQL database built on a transactional, strongly-consistent key-value store, written in Go. It scales horizontally, survives disk, machine, rack, and datacenter failures with no manual intervention, and exposes a PostgreSQL-compatible SQL API.
Use cases
- run a globally distributed SQL database that survives datacenter failures
- scale a transactional database horizontally without manual sharding
- migrate from PostgreSQL to a cloud-native distributed database
- pin data to specific regions for compliance and low latency
- build a fintech system of record with 99.99%+ uptime
- run a strongly consistent ACID database across multiple clouds
When to choose
- you need strong consistency and ACID transactions across regions
- you cannot tolerate downtime from disk, machine, or datacenter failures
- you want PostgreSQL compatibility with automatic replication and rebalancing
- you need data locality controls for regulatory compliance
- you are scaling past what a single Postgres node or manual sharding can handle
When to avoid
- you need a lightweight embedded or single-node database for a small app
- your workload is read-heavy analytics better served by a data warehouse
- you depend on PostgreSQL extensions or features CockroachDB does not support
- you want the simplest possible operational footprint and no cluster to manage
- you need strict open-source licensing - the core license is not OSI-approved (BSL-style)
Facets
application · maturity stable
database caching search-engine databases microservices cloud-computing backend fintech windows cloud self-hosted go distributed-sql postgresql-compatible acid-transactions horizontal-scaling high-availability multi-region survivable-database kv-store sql linux macos docker kubernetes
5 sources
- readme: https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach · fetched 2026-08-28 · e464b2514ee7
- homepage: https://www.cockroachlabs.com · fetched 2026-08-29 · c1d6b13cbeb7
- site_page: https://docs.cockroachlabs.com/ · fetched 2026-08-29 · 289b9a1b0263
- site_page: https://www.cockroachlabs.com/about · fetched 2026-08-29 · 791d017a6574
- site_page: https://www.cockroachlabs.com/pricing · fetched 2026-08-29 · e44db3145775
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| cockroachdb/cockroach | main | 77 |
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