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CockroachDB vs Postgres-XC

A side-by-side look at CockroachDB and Postgres-XC. 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
Postgres-XC

Postgres-XC

Databases

Postgres-XC is an open source, shared-nothing clustering extension for PostgreSQL. It provides horizontal scalability across multiple nodes for handling large workloads and high availability through automatic failover.

clusteringscalabilityhigh-availabilityopen-source

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