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    cockroachdb

    cockroachdb/cockroach

    CockroachDB — the cloud native, distributed SQL database designed for high availability, effortless scale, and control over data placement.

    database
    cockroachdb
    distributed-database
    go
    hacktoberfest
    sql
    Go
    NOASSERTION
    32.6K stars
    4.2K forks
    656 GitHub watchers
    Updated Nov 6, 2026
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    Where it stands

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    The project lists 306 contributors on GitHub.

    Peaked at #48 in the weekly ranking the week of Jul 12, its best in the past year.

    Use Cases & Benefits

    • A cloud-native distributed SQL database that provides scalable, strongly-consistent ACID transactions with a familiar SQL API.
    • Offers high availability and fault tolerance by surviving disk, machine, rack, and datacenter failures with minimal latency disruption and no manual intervention.
    • Use for building globally distributed applications requiring strong consistency and horizontal scalability.
    • Use for deploying fault-tolerant SQL databases in cloud or multi-datacenter environments with automatic data replication and rebalancing.
    • Use for developers needing PostgreSQL-compatible SQL interfaces with support for transactional workloads and seamless scaling.

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    From the README

    CockroachDB is a cloud-native distributed SQL database designed to build, scale, and manage modern, data-intensive applications.

    CockroachDB is a distributed SQL database built on a transactional and strongly-consistent key-value store. It scales horizontally; survives disk, machine, rack, and even datacenter failures with minimal latency disruption and no manual intervention; supports strongly-consistent ACID transactions; and provides a familiar SQL API for structuring, manipulating, and querying data.

    For more details, see our product overview, FAQ or architecture document.

    For guidance on installation, development, deployment, and administration, see our User Documentation.

    Excerpt from the cockroachdb/cockroach README on GitHub (NOASSERTION license). © its authors.Read the full README on GitHub

    Daily snapshots

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    Sep 17: +76Sep 28: +4Oct 2: -2Oct 3: +3Oct 4: +3

    +216 stars over 81 days across 13 snapshot days; best day +76 on Sep 17.

    Forks

    4.2K+150

    Open issues

    8.1K-67

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