# cockroachdb/cockroach

> CockroachDB is a distributed SQL database with horizontal scaling, ACID transactions, and resilience to node and datacenter failures. It speaks the PostgreSQL wire protocol and targets data-intensive applications.

- Magnitude: 1.2 out of 10 — Quiet
- Stars: 32,603 total · +3 stars measured 2026-11-02, 00:15–23:12 UTC
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Backend & databases · Language: Go · Created: 2014-02-06 · Last push: 2026-10-29
- GitHub: https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach · Homepage: https://www.cockroachlabs.com · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/cockroachdb/cockroach

## Useful for

- Deploy a fault-tolerant SQL cluster for an application with high availability requirements
- Connect an existing PostgreSQL driver or ORM to CockroachDB without rewriting code
- Start a local CockroachDB cluster for development and SQL query testing

## Why it’s here

- Star-counter measurements on 2026-11-02 (UTC), 00:15–23:12: 32600 → 32603 stars (+3). This is the change over that interval.
- Hacker News: “Five months treating bugs like patients and coding agents like a medical team” — 218 points, 24 days ago.
- About 10 forks a day — people are taking the code.

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 4,269
- Issues and pull requests: 175,908
- Watchers: 657
- Average over the last week: 3 per day
- Usual pace: 3 per day
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 0

## Stars per day, last 30 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-10-04 … 2026-11-02: 5, 5, 1, 6, 3, 2, 5, 5, 7, 3, 1, 4, 3, 1, 0, 1, 1, 2, 1, 6, 4, 3, 5, 3, 4, 3, 4, 3, 2, 3

## Magnitude by day, last 14 days

10-03 0.9, 10-04 1.5, 10-05 1.3, 10-06 1.2, 10-07 0.8, 10-08 1.2, 10-26 1.3, 10-27 1.8, 10-28 1.7, 10-29 1.7, 10-30 1.5, 10-31 1.6, 11-01 1.5, 11-02 1.4

## Hacker News

- Five months treating bugs like patients and coding agents like a medical team — 218 points, 119 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50021899
- Cockroach Continuum – Elastic Infrastructure for Agentic Database Estates — 12 points, 0 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49714289

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