We performed a comparison between CockroachDB and MariaDB based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Relational Databases Tools solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The best feature of CockroachDB is the ability to keep the nodes in different locations."
"The tool's most valuable feature is node syncing, which takes only 0.54 milliseconds."
"CockroachDB is highly reliable."
"The product has valuable security features."
"The subset of SQL that my client is using is completely supported."
"I use CockroachDB to test big data samples and to create the best structure for databases. We have four users and required 10 people for deployment and maintenance."
"The availability and the easy to use feature is the most valuable. The documentation is also good."
"The initial setup and deployment are simple."
"What I like best about MariaDB is that it is open-source and reliable."
"It's open source."
"The most valuable features of the solution stem from the fact that it is an open-source product and offers its users great online community support."
"I like the global transaction IDs (GTIDs) feature. It's quite reliable for replication between a master and a replica server, and it's a feature that MySQL also has but implemented differently."
"The solution is very easy to implement."
"The most valuable features of the solution stem from the fact that it is a cloud-based tool, so it is pretty fast."
"Great monitoring and performance stability."
"A valuable feature is that we can use it for quite a few things, all the things you'd expect from a server—along the lines of Linux's Lightweight Directory."
"I find the serverless offer a bit confusing."
"The closer they can make CockroachDB to being completely compatible with Postgres, the better. It's almost compatible, but not completely. If it was, it would be nice to just be able to use Postgres libraries without any fiddling."
"CockroachDB needs to improve store processes."
"The initial setup and pricing could be improved."
"We are looking for more features to support distributed high availability and geo-partitioning."
"Cockroach does not support all types of protocols. I need to improve it myself to support a CouchDB on my network."
"The product must improve its disaster recovery features."
"The platform could be more extensible."
"The customer service and support are okay. But the response time is slow. Moreover, the material is not available freely."
"Data continuity could be improved."
"Integration with AWS could be improved."
"Maria DB has to improve from a management perspective."
"I'd like to see improved materialized views, like the ability to save select queries. This feature is missing in MariaDB compared to other relational databases like Oracle and SQL Server."
"The configuration could be improved. It should be easier."
"The PL/SQL performance is slow if you have big batch jobs running overnight."
"Master-master replication is something that needs to be simplified."
CockroachDB is ranked 9th in Relational Databases Tools with 10 reviews while MariaDB is ranked 5th in Relational Databases Tools with 51 reviews. CockroachDB is rated 8.0, while MariaDB is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of CockroachDB writes "Open source with extensive documentation and a University for training". On the other hand, the top reviewer of MariaDB writes "Simultaneously use active server capabilities but lacks the maturity ". CockroachDB is most compared with Oracle Database, MySQL, Citus Data, Amazon Aurora and SingleStore, whereas MariaDB is most compared with SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Oracle Database, MySQL and IBM Db2 Database. See our CockroachDB vs. MariaDB report.
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