CockroachDB
CockroachDB — the cloud native, distributed SQL database designed for high availability, effortless scale, and control over data placement. observed · 2026-10-10
Health v2 · maintenance only
76/100
- Activity 97
- 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 2026-10-21. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 4640
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 18
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
32555 stars · 4129 forks observed · 2026-10-10
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-10-05, confidence 0.97
CockroachDB is a cloud‑native distributed SQL database that offers strong consistency, ACID transactions, and horizontal scalability. It is designed to survive node, rack, and datacenter failures with minimal latency disruption.
Use cases
- build a globally distributed, fault‑tolerant application backend
- migrate a monolithic PostgreSQL workload to a resilient, multi‑region database
- run high‑availability transactional services for finance or payments
- scale a SaaS platform with isolated per‑tenant databases on shared infrastructure
- store and query large volumes of data with automatic rebalancing and replication
When to choose
- you need strong consistency and ACID guarantees across multiple regions
- your application must remain available despite hardware or network failures
- you want a PostgreSQL‑compatible interface with built‑in horizontal scaling
- you prefer a managed cloud offering (CockroachDB Cloud) or self‑hosted deployment
When to avoid
- you require ultra‑low latency single‑node performance over distributed consistency
- your workload is read‑only and can tolerate eventual consistency
- you need a specialized NoSQL data model not supported by relational SQL
Facets
application · maturity active
database-driver search-engine databases backend cloud-computing windows cloud self-hosted distributed-sql high-availability strong-consistency horizontal-scaling cockroachdb cloud-native sql distributed-database data-engineering linux macos docker kubernetes
9 sources
- readme: https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach · fetched 2026-10-10 · e464b2514ee7
- homepage: https://www.cockroachlabs.com · fetched 2026-09-21 · 5d289bbb2901
- site_page: https://docs.cockroachlabs.com/ · fetched 2026-09-21 · 9e5e6c2341fe
- site_page: https://www.cockroachlabs.com/about · fetched 2026-09-21 · a68205c479f0
- registry_pypi: https://pypi.org/pypi/django-cockroachdb/json · fetched 2026-09-21 · 58cc0af1da22
- registry_npm: https://registry.npmjs.org/sequelize-cockroachdb · fetched 2026-09-21 · 6aed13bc60e5
- site_page: https://www.cockroachlabs.com/pricing · fetched 2026-09-21 · 959c51401fec
- site_page: https://www.cockroachlabs.com/product/continuum · fetched 2026-09-21 · 5a968132e35d
- site_page: https://www.cockroachlabs.com/product/partner-integrations · fetched 2026-09-21 · d943fc5bffbf
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| cockroachdb/cockroach | main | 76 |
| cockroachdb/docs | docs | 10 |
| cockroachdb/django-cockroachdb | plugin | 76 |
| cockroachdb/activerecord-cockroachdb-adapter | plugin | 66 |
| cockroachdb/helm-charts | infra | 77 |
| cockroachdb/sequelize-cockroachdb | plugin | 76 |
For agents
markdown · JSON · MCP: product_card(name="cockroachdb/cockroach")
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