CockroachDB is a distributed, PostgreSQL-compatible SQL database built for horizontal scale, strong consistency, and fault tolerance across regions and clouds. It targets teams needing globally distributed, resilient databases, and is offered both as a serverless managed service and as self-hostable software. Under its current license (adopted in late 2024) self-hosting is free for smaller organizations below a revenue threshold, which is why it is marked self-hostable but not OSI open-source. It runs across multiple clouds and offers a usage-based serverless free tier. Compliance coverage includes SOC2, ISO27001, HIPAA, and PCI-DSS.
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Overview
- Founded
- 2015
- Pricing tier
- Low
- Startup-friendly
- Yes
- Enterprise-ready
- Yes
Managed database
- Engine type
- SQL
- Free tier
- Yes: Free serverless tier (usage allowance); self-host free under the CockroachDB license for smaller orgs.
- Serverless
- Yes
- Open-source
- No
- Self-hostable
- Yes
- Multi-cloud
- Yes