CockroachDB vs Google Spanner

If you like Spanner, you’ll love CockroachDB. Learn more about the difference between them.

Just a few of the many reasons organizations choose CockroachDB

Transactions

CockroachDB was architected for complex, high performant distributed transactions with serializable isolation as the default.

Geo Partitioning

Supports geo-partitioning with zone configurations for data locality, compliance, and low latency.

Multi-Region

Synchronous replication across regions, cloud providers, on-premises, or hybrid with Raft consensus for fault tolerance and strong consistency.

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Features

Availability

GCP Only

All public clouds, on-prem and local

Architecture

Architected to span globally distributed data centers, yet still valuable in a single data center

Architected to resiliently span globally distributed data centers, while still being valuable in a single data center

Distributed transactions

Limited ability to optimize latency concerns for multi-region writes

Intelligent replication uses RAFT to place data and efficiently utilize available storage and compute resources

Multi-region writes

Limited ability to optimize latency concerns for multi-region writes

Advances in parallel commits and transaction pipelining reduce broad geographic transaction latencies

Data residency

Entire database lives in each region with no control at row level for survival/latency/compliance goals for data

Data is tied to a node at the row level to optimize performance and/or comply with data regulations

Hybrid and multi-cloud deployment

Tied to GCP instances only, no options for multi and/or hybrid cloud

Run anywhere on any cloud and even across regions and clouds

Pricing

A la carte pricing for networking, storage and per-instance with limited availability

Simple, straightforward pricing, plus the ability to tie data to a location to avoid egress costs

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Databases and platform freedom

CockroachDB is architected to give you the freedom to deploy your database anywhere: Any private or public cloud, across multiple clouds, using our innovative Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) offering, on premises, self-hosted, or in a hybrid deployment encompassing some or all of these. Use the best solution for your workloads without cloud provider or deployment model lock-in.