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A comparison of enterprise-grade RDBMSs

CockroachDB vs. Oracle Database

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Why leading enterprises love CockroachDB

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Lower cost of ownership

Say goodbye to costly upcharges and add-ons. CockroachDB can reduce application and ops overhead by up to 90% through automation.

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Simplified operations

CockroachDB offers native scale without manual sharding, freeing up engineering hours for more productive tasks.

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Cloud flexibility

Stay agile and avoid vendor lock-in. Run CockroachDB in the public cloud of your choice or in your private data center.

Side-by-side comparison

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imageCloud deployment
Can be deployed in AWS and Azure but is designed to work best in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)
All public clouds, on-prem, and bare metal
imageScale
Can achieve high scale via manual sharding or expensive add-ons (Oracle RAC, Golden Gate, etc.)
Native scale and load balancing maintains app performance under demand and eliminates complex database operations
imageAvailability
High availability best achieved using expensive add-ons, many of which only run in OCI
Active-active availability lets you read and write from every node. Set availability goals at the database, table, or row level.
imageData loss
Does not offer a single no-data-loss, multi-region, active-active solution. <br> “Snapshot” serializability and defaults to read-committed.
3x data replication by default with concurrent writes across replicas
imageData locality
Simulates geo-partitioning via “native database sharding,” but additional engineering is often needed to ensure data remains globally consistent and locally performant
Ties data to a node to optimize performance or comply with data regulations

Architected for mission-critical transactional use cases

Relational databases are founded in relational algebra and deliver a highly efficient store that enforces data integrity in the database as opposed to in code.

User accounts & metadata

Deliver flawless customer experiences built on accurate, always available user data.

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Payments systems

When it comes to capturing payments at scale, data consistency and high availability are priceless.

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Inventory management

Sell to zero (but not beyond) with always-accurate stock counts, even when shoppers have a change of cart.

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Migrating has never been easier

CockroachDB’s MOLT Live Migration Service simplifies every step of the end-to-end migration lifecycle: from schema conversion and creation through data loading.

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Comparative claims based on publicly available information as of Q1 2024.