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Cockroachdb

Runner-up recommendation: Best fit for teams already standardized on AWS networking, compliance, and operational controls.

“Runner-up recommendation: Best fit for teams already standardized on AWS networking, compliance, and operational controls.”

Runner-up recommendation: Best fit for teams already standardized on AWS networking, compliance, and operational controls.

Why teams pick it

  • Distributed application topologies pair better with CockroachDB's multi-region model than edge-plus-single-region stacks do.
  • Prisma supports CockroachDB, though teams must respect distributed transaction semantics.
  • CockroachDB deployments benefit from explicit infrastructure and topology management.
  • Works for operational analytics, but not the best fit for heavy warehouse-style workloads.

Where it gives ground

  • Postgres wire compatibility does not extend to the wider extension ecosystem.
  • Simple single-region apps can pay a latency and complexity tax for capabilities they do not need.

What the commercial model looks like

Basic

$0 /mo

  • regions: 1
  • clusters: 1
  • storage_gb: 10
  • support_sla: community
  • request_units: starter allocation

Dedicated

$295 /mo

  • vcpu: 4
  • regions: 1
  • storage_gb: 150
  • support_sla: dedicated
  • private_networking: true

Enterprise

$1,800 /mo

  • support: Priority
  • seats: Unlimited

The practical snapshot

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