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CockroachDB vs MongoDB

A side-by-side look at CockroachDB and MongoDB. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

CockroachDB

CockroachDB

Development

CockroachDB is an open-source, distributed SQL database that scales horizontally with high availability to tolerate failures and supports strongly consistent ACID transactions. It aims to provide scalability, survivability, and data consistency across multiple datacenters.

distributedscalablefault-tolerantsql
MongoDB

MongoDB

Development

MongoDB is a popular open-source, document-oriented NoSQL database. It stores data in flexible, JSON-like documents, rather than rows and columns used in traditional RDBMS. MongoDB is scalable, high-performance and easy to use.

nosqldocument-databaseopen-source

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