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Why build on CockroachDB over Yugabyte?
Bulletproof Resilience
Effortless Scale
Efficient Performance
Automated sharding across instances so you can scale your database not the complexity
An active-active database that is always on, always available and will survive any failure
Meet the needs of your users even in the most active and broadly dispersed environments
Node based, automated read scale, limited write
Node based, automated for both reads and writes
Database Horizontal Scale
Detailed options to optimize storage, compute and latency
Database Load Balancing (internal)
Even distribution to optimize storage
Failover
Fully automated for both reads and writes
Automated Repair and RPO
"Automated Repair RPO <10 sec"
Automated Repair RPO = 0
Distributed Reads
Yes
Distributed Transactions
Guaranteed Consistent Default: Serializable Highest: Serializable
Database Isolation Levels
Default: Snapshot Highest: Serializable
Potential data issues (default)
None
SQL
Yes - with limitations
Yes - wire compatible with PostgreSQL
Database Schema Change
Online, Active, Dynamic
Cost Based Optimization
?
Data Geo-partitoning
Yes, Row level
Upgrade Method
Online, Rolling
Multi-region
Yes, but not for writes
Yes for both reads and writes
Multi-cloud
No
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