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CockroachDB vs Preon

A side-by-side look at CockroachDB and Preon. 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
Preon

Preon

Development

Preon is an object serializer that generates compact binary data formats. It aims to be an alternative to protocols like JSON and XML that focus on text-based serialization.

binaryserializationobject