Not parent. No idea about the defacto standard comment. CockroachDB client protocol is* compatible with PostgreSQL. Edit: as well as SQL syntax, that's the im

Not parent. No idea about the defacto standard comment. CockroachDB client protocol is* compatible with PostgreSQL. Edit: as well as SQL syntax, that's the important bit. Meaning you could in theory mirror data to CockroachDB and the point your clients to it instead of PostgreSQL. CockroachDB is aiming to solve horizontal scaling, hence the "grow" comment.