> I stopped using them when they released Follower-Reads as an enterprise feature. I read Cockroach Labs’ strategy to be good on single nodes, great on single-

> I stopped using them when they released Follower-Reads as an enterprise feature. I read Cockroach Labs’ strategy to be good on single nodes, great on single-datacentre cluster, phenomenal worldwide. They offer single-DC features open-source, and worldwide enterprise-only. Apart from SQL features, their open-source cluster offer seems superior to PostgreSQL. Sure, they do not have follower-reads, but neither does PG (which does not even have AS OF SYSTEM TIME, a prerequisite), and it is only beneficial with multi-DC. Reads are still distributed by range, so there is no particular negative compared to Postgres. Why was Follower-Reads a dealbreaker?