CockroachDB vs Supabase
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CockroachDB
Distributed SQL database — Postgres-compatible, horizontally scalable, with strong consistency and global replication.
Supabase
Open-source Firebase alternative — Postgres plus auth, storage, realtime, edge functions, and vector search.
StackMatch Editorial verdicts
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Supabase is the open-source Firebase that engineers actually want — Postgres-native, generous free tier, RLS done right. The platform is opinionated in productive ways and the lock-in is genuinely lower than the competition.
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Side-by-Side Comparison
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Workloads requiring multi-region strong consistency — global marketplaces, financial systems, or any app that cannot tolerate data inconsistency across regions.
Single-region OLTP workloads that fit on a vertical-scaled Postgres — CockroachDB's latency and cost are meaningfully higher than RDS Postgres.
Web and mobile apps that want a full backend without building auth, storage, and APIs from scratch — especially strong for AI apps needing pgvector.
Complex enterprise workloads requiring fine-grained Postgres tuning — raw RDS or self-managed Postgres gives more control.
Both suited for: medium, large companies
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