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Most of those solutions are not on part with Cockroach, Cockroach is basically Spanner usable outside of Google. So global transaction with cluster world wide.


Spanner is cheap in comparison depending on your storage requirements. I've seen CockroachDB quoted as 10x more, and for a product that is harder to sell to stake holders.


There are some contenders in that list: TiDB, YugabyteDB, YDB.


spanner != cockroach. Spanner has specialized hardware with atomic clocks. It's better.

https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/living-without-atomic-clo...




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