short answer: nope. cockroachdb replicates data for availability and in order to guarantee consistency across the replicas, it uses Raft[1] internally. Raft nec

short answer: nope. cockroachdb replicates data for availability and in order to guarantee consistency across the replicas, it uses Raft[1] internally. Raft necessitates a majority of the replicas remain available in order to operate. it ensures that a new 'leader' for each group of replicas is elected if the former leader fails, so that transactions can continue and affected replicas can rejoin their group once they're back online. [1]: https://raft.github.io/raft.pdf https://raft.github.io/raft.pdf