Ask HN: What Is the Value of CockroachDB?

#1

Post by lokiju » Wed, Jun 24, 2020, 7:57 PM UTC

I dont mean this sarcastically, I just keep hearing how this technology is great and distributed but I cant really see the current use case in current enterprises.

Is there something I am missing? Why would someone simply switch their backed databases for something that does not even offer Data Warehousing or other data management tools?

Re: Ask HN: What Is the Value of CockroachDB?

#2

Post by cocktailpeanuts » Wed, Jun 24, 2020, 8:20 PM UTC

Everytime CockcroachDB has been on HN, the conversation has been always about their name ("what a shitty name for an enterprise software" vs. "who cares if it works well"), but I have been also wondering the same question.

Are they getting adoption? And what's their unique value proposition?

Re: Ask HN: What Is the Value of CockroachDB?

#3

Post by cdbattags » Wed, Jun 24, 2020, 8:50 PM UTC

“Shard your Postgres DB without the typical devops headaches.”

Re: Ask HN: What Is the Value of CockroachDB?

#4

Post by BruiseLee » Wed, Jun 24, 2020, 9:09 PM UTC

From my experience, CockroachDB is super simple to set up. You can pretty much follow their tutorial and get a working cluster in no time. So I would say it's a good solution for non-experts. Now if you are already running Postgres, then I don't know why you would want to switch.

Re: Ask HN: What Is the Value of CockroachDB?

#5

Post by irfansharif » Wed, Jun 24, 2020, 9:14 PM UTC

what "data warehousing"/"data management" tools are missing?

Re: Ask HN: What Is the Value of CockroachDB?

#6

Post by kareiva » Wed, Jun 24, 2020, 9:26 PM UTC

cocktailpeanuts wrote: post #2

Everytime CockcroachDB has been on HN, the conversation has been always about their name ("what a shitty name for an enterprise software" vs. "who cares if it works well"), but I have been also wondering the same question. Are they getting adoption? And what's their unique value proposition?

I would love to see more of the common mistypes of the product name.

Re: Ask HN: What Is the Value of CockroachDB?

#7

Post by heelix » Wed, Jun 24, 2020, 9:45 PM UTC

Keep in mind, this is the only part of that elephant I've interacted with. The key things for us were it was transnational and had cross data center replication. You could update a node in data center a, and have it replicate down to the other data center with minimal latency.

Re: Ask HN: What Is the Value of CockroachDB?

#8

Post by redis_mlc » Wed, Jun 24, 2020, 9:49 PM UTC

As a DBA, I would not use a database product without 5 years of reported production success. Additionally, most companies don't need yet another product to do training and support on.

Re: Ask HN: What Is the Value of CockroachDB?

#9

Post by jasonhansel » Wed, Jun 24, 2020, 9:57 PM UTC

It's relational, it scales horizontally, and it's free. That combination is surprisingly hard to find.

Re: Ask HN: What Is the Value of CockroachDB?

#10

Post by cultofmetatron » Wed, Jun 24, 2020, 10:07 PM UTC

cocktailpeanuts wrote: post #2

Everytime CockcroachDB has been on HN, the conversation has been always about their name ("what a shitty name for an enterprise software" vs. "who cares if it works well"), but I have been also wondering the same question. Are they getting adoption? And what's their unique value proposition?

how about PeriplanetaDB?