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So what's the price? For Spanner, which is perhaps their closest competitor, it takes a few seconds to find at least the list price, before discounts and such.

by puzzle 8y ago

strict9 8y ago
They sure don't make it easy to find on their site, though this post breaks down some of it: https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/aurora-price-vs-cockroachdb/ https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/aurora-price-vs-cockroach... Cockroaches team also have their customers as a top level nav item now, though Baidu is the only one I recognize: https://www.cockroachlabs.com/customers/ https://www.cockroachlabs.com/customers/
- _jezell_ 8y ago
  They compared the free version pricing, not enterprise.
philip1209 8y ago
Databases are the core of a digital business. The opportunity cost of losing data is huge. Customers won't blindly trust a product with their data until they understand the pricing. Nobody is putting this DB into production on a 30-day free trial with no pricing info. CockroachDB focuses a lot on showing technical users that they can trust the product. If they want to make money, then they need to become a trustworthy vendor, too.
_jezell_ 8y ago
They want $10k per year per core, making it pretty much the most expensive thing you could possibly use as a database and multiple times more expensive than SQL Server over the course of a few years, and far more expensive than even using Oracle Cloud. It's a really well built product, but the pricing is not even close to compelling.
- jamesweitzman 8y ago
  Cockroach Labs employee here. CockroachDB has pricing that is tiered to different customer needs and sizes. Reach out with a business need and you will see that our pricing is incredibly competitive (certainly lower than Oracle or SQL Server) and delivers a cloud-native, geo-distributed SQL solution that is unmatched.

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So what's the price? For Spanner, which is perhaps their closest competitor, it takes a few seconds to find at least the list price, before discounts and such.

by puzzle 8y ago

So what's the price? For Spanner, which is perhaps their closest competitor, it takes a few seconds to find at least the list price, before discounts and such.

strict9 8y ago
They sure don't make it easy to find on their site, though this post breaks down some of it: https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/aurora-price-vs-cockroachdb/ https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/aurora-price-vs-cockroach... Cockroaches team also have their customers as a top level nav item now, though Baidu is the only one I recognize: https://www.cockroachlabs.com/customers/ https://www.cockroachlabs.com/customers/
- _jezell_ 8y ago
  They compared the free version pricing, not enterprise.
philip1209 8y ago
Databases are the core of a digital business. The opportunity cost of losing data is huge. Customers won't blindly trust a product with their data until they understand the pricing. Nobody is putting this DB into production on a 30-day free trial with no pricing info. CockroachDB focuses a lot on showing technical users that they can trust the product. If they want to make money, then they need to become a trustworthy vendor, too.
_jezell_ 8y ago
They want $10k per year per core, making it pretty much the most expensive thing you could possibly use as a database and multiple times more expensive than SQL Server over the course of a few years, and far more expensive than even using Oracle Cloud. It's a really well built product, but the pricing is not even close to compelling.
- jamesweitzman 8y ago
  Cockroach Labs employee here. CockroachDB has pricing that is tiered to different customer needs and sizes. Reach out with a business need and you will see that our pricing is incredibly competitive (certainly lower than Oracle or SQL Server) and delivers a cloud-native, geo-distributed SQL solution that is unmatched.