CockroachDB Has a Free Distributed SQL Database With PostgreSQL Compatibility

CockroachDB is a distributed SQL database with PostgreSQL compatibility. It provides automatic sharding, replication, and multi-region deployment.

Free Tier (Serverless)

• 10 GiB storage
• 50M Request Units/month
• PostgreSQL compatible — use existing tools
• Multi-region — survive zone/region failures
• Auto-scaling — scales to zero when idle

Use Like PostgreSQL

CREATE TABLE users (
  id UUID PRIMARY KEY DEFAULT gen_random_uuid(),
  name STRING NOT NULL,
  email STRING UNIQUE
);
INSERT INTO users (name, email) VALUES ('Alice', '[e-mail]');

CockroachDB vs PostgreSQL

Feature	CockroachDB	PostgreSQL
Distributed	Native	Manual
Multi-region	Built-in	Complex
Scale	Horizontal	Vertical

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