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Yes, the popular fork is called Postgres. You can find many vendors who will let you run it on one node cheaply. It’s also free to self-host.
by aduffy 2y ago
Yes, the popular fork is called Postgres. You can find many vendors who will let you run it on one node cheaply. It’s also free to self-host.
- Thaxll 2y agoPG is nowhere close of What Cockroach does and probably never will.
- mardifoufs 2y agoIn what way is postgres similar to cockroachdb? Except for being a database. Going by that standard you might as well say that Access is an alternative to postgres. Which it technically is but...
- notpushkin 2y agoCockroach marketed themselves as largely Postgres-compatible, so I guess there's that.
- mardifoufs 2y agoI guess that's true, I didn't think about that. But i think that you'd probably not be using cockroachdb if you were fine with what postgres offers. Cockroach might be compatible, but it really isn't "comparable" in terms of use cases and deployment imo. I might be totally wrong though, I have not been following it and Postgres closely since some time around 2021?
- zellyn 2y agoIt's useful to use a Postgres-compatible syntax. The point of Cockroach was always to compete with globe-spanning DBs like Spanner, not with (possibly) sharded PG.
- geenat 2y agoCitus gets close for many usecases but the HA story sucks: https://github.com/citusdata/citus/issues/7602 https://github.com/citusdata/citus/issues/7602