Citus vs CockroachDB

Need advice about which tool to choose?Ask the StackShare community!

Citus

58
122
+ 1
10
CockroachDB

205
328
+ 1
0
Add tool

Citus vs CockroachDB: What are the differences?

What is Citus? Worry-free Postgres for SaaS. Built to scale out. Citus is worry-free Postgres for SaaS. Made to scale out, Citus is an extension to Postgres that distributes queries across any number of servers. Citus is available as open source, as on-prem software, and as a fully-managed service.

What is CockroachDB? A cloud-native SQL database for building global, scalable cloud services that survive disasters. Cockroach Labs is the company building CockroachDB, an open source, survivable, strongly consistent, scale-out SQL database.

Citus and CockroachDB can be primarily classified as "Databases" tools.

Citus is an open source tool with 3.64K GitHub stars and 273 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Citus's open source repository on GitHub.

Get Advice from developers at your company using StackShare Enterprise. Sign up for StackShare Enterprise.
Learn More
Pros of Citus
Pros of CockroachDB
  • 6
    Multi-core Parallel Processing
  • 2
    Drop-in PostgreSQL replacement
  • 2
    Distributed with Auto-Sharding
    Be the first to leave a pro

    Sign up to add or upvote prosMake informed product decisions

    - No public GitHub repository available -

    What is Citus?

    It's an extension to Postgres that distributes data and queries in a cluster of multiple machines. Its query engine parallelizes incoming SQL queries across these servers to enable human real-time (less than a second) responses on large datasets.

    What is CockroachDB?

    CockroachDB is distributed SQL database that can be deployed in serverless, dedicated, or on-prem. Elastic scale, multi-active availability for resilience, and low latency performance.

    Need advice about which tool to choose?Ask the StackShare community!

    What companies use Citus?
    What companies use CockroachDB?
    See which teams inside your own company are using Citus or CockroachDB.
    Sign up for StackShare EnterpriseLearn More

    Sign up to get full access to all the companiesMake informed product decisions

    What tools integrate with Citus?
    What tools integrate with CockroachDB?

    Sign up to get full access to all the tool integrationsMake informed product decisions

    Blog Posts

    What are some alternatives to Citus and CockroachDB?
    TimescaleDB
    TimescaleDB: An open-source database built for analyzing time-series data with the power and convenience of SQL — on premise, at the edge, or in the cloud.
    Apache Aurora
    Apache Aurora is a service scheduler that runs on top of Mesos, enabling you to run long-running services that take advantage of Mesos' scalability, fault-tolerance, and resource isolation.
    Cassandra
    Partitioning means that Cassandra can distribute your data across multiple machines in an application-transparent matter. Cassandra will automatically repartition as machines are added and removed from the cluster. Row store means that like relational databases, Cassandra organizes data by rows and columns. The Cassandra Query Language (CQL) is a close relative of SQL.
    Vitess
    It is a database solution for deploying, scaling and managing large clusters of MySQL instances. It’s architected to run as effectively in a public or private cloud architecture as it does on dedicated hardware. It combines and extends many important MySQL features with the scalability of a NoSQL database.
    Clickhouse
    It allows analysis of data that is updated in real time. It offers instant results in most cases: the data is processed faster than it takes to create a query.
    See all alternatives