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I’ve never heard of cockroachdb, what are the advantages of it and why is it preferable to Postgres?
by zahrc 7y ago
I’ve never heard of cockroachdb, what are the advantages of it and why is it preferable to Postgres?
- vvern 7y agoA primary advantage is horizontal scalability. If you need more capacity, just add more nodes. Additionally it offers better fault tolerance and zero-downtime online upgrades. For more advanced use cases it can be deployed in a geo-replicated topology and configured with partitioning for low latency transactions when confined to a single region while proving strong consistency and a single logical database globally. Disclaimer: I work on cockroach.