2 years ago

Category: Business, Database, Data

There are two kinds of technologists in the world: those who see the database as a means to end and those who see it as an end in itself. But the former group — largely made up of developers who just want the database to enable the vision for their application and then get out of the way — is in fact hugely influential in database platform decisions. Cockroach Labs has introduced CockroachDB Serverless, which aims to deliver a low-friction database service geared to those very developers. Developers don’t want to fetishize the idiosyncrasies of a database platform, nor the care and feeding of it.

But, in the case of CockroachDB Serverless, it might be more useful to compare it to scale-out PostgreSQL cloud offerings like the aforementioned Amazon Aurora or Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Hyperscale.