CockroachDB for
Startups
From seed round to exit and every stage in between, startups of all sizes use CockroachDB to build better apps faster, for less costs
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General Purpose Datastore
Build on a familiar SQL foundation that minimizes the learning curve for your fellow developers and trust that it will scale with you as your business grows.
Transactional System of Record
Whether you're building an AI app, blockchain platform, or generating large transactional workloads, never worry about read/write bottlenecks and ensure that your transactions are always consistent.
Platform Metadata Layer
Collect metadata about your users and their interactions with your platform, and scale horizontally as your user base grows while maintaining consistency.
User Authentication
Check permissions in real time and receive accurate responses to queries while serving a globally distributed user base.
Build fast & build to last
Choosing the right database for your future aspirations saves time, money, and headaches down the road. Start small and feel confident that your infrastructure will grow with you since CockroachDB delivers the resilience and scale required to build global applications.
Quickly prototype new ideas
Spin up a new cluster in minutes, leverage standard SQL, and connect to familiar Postgres extensions with ease. When you want to scale your project, simply add more nodes and CockroachDB will automatically rebalance the data.
Reach a global customer base
Start local and grow to meet your users no matter where they are located with a single database implementation. CockroachDB can distribute data across multiple regions and pin data to a particular location for low-latency access and regulatory compliance.
Reduce spend and time spent on operations
Don’t waste time on manual sharding or worry about reaching your maximum server size. CockroachDB automatically scales both reads and writes that will allow you to grow from a single customer, to a massive success.
Future-proof your infrastructure
Never lose sleep over data loss again with CockroachDB’s self-healing infrastructure that can survive any type of failure. Serializable isolation prevents concurrency issues by default, helping you avoid transaction anomalies as workloads grow.
“Not only did we want a database that could work for us when we launched, but we needed a solution that could work for us in the future. We wanted a database that was resilient to failures. A modern cloud database that could scale.”
“We wanted to be able to tell a zero RTO/RPO story,” Caballero says. “When we evaluated Cockroach against other things we were looking at for multi-region like AWS Aurora or similar products, we just felt that this [CockroachDB] was the best.”
“We knew how complicated it would have been to stay with Postgres and set up sharding. There would have been a constant drag of managing multiple shards of data. No one on our team wanted to go through that manual labor. And even if we did set up sharding, we weren’t going to be able to grow our business 10x.”
