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CockroachDB

Distributed SQL database that scales horizontally

Database / BackendLaunched Jul 2026
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CockroachDB is a distributed SQL database built to survive failures and scale horizontally while keeping strong consistency. It is developed by Cockroach Labs, founded in 2015 by Spencer Kimball, Peter Mattis, and Ben Darnell, who previously worked at Google. It is Postgres wire-compatible.

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