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title: CockroachDB vs PlanetScale Serverless MySQL
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  -
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# CockroachDB vs PlanetScale Serverless MySQL

## Pair

- **A**: CockroachDB
- **B**: PlanetScale Serverless MySQL

## Entity A

- **Title**: [CockroachDB](https://saasspecs.com/item/cockroachdb/?format=md)
- **Schema type**: Corporation
- **Website**: https://www.cockroachlabs.com
- **Email**: support@cockroachlabs.com
- **Address**: 53 Broadway, New York, New York, 10006, United States
- **Coordinates**: 40.7089, -74.0113
- **Deployment Link**: [Deploy CockroachDB Stack Layer](https://www.cockroachlabs.com/cloud/cockroachcloud/serverless)

### Summary

Distributed SQL database with serializable isolation, multi-region survival goals, and PostgreSQL wire compatibility.

### Description

CockroachDB Cloud runs globally distributed PostgreSQL-compatible clusters with automatic sharding, online schema changes, and survival goal configuration for zone or region failures.

### Expert insight

Configure survival goals per table based on latency tolerance before enabling multi-region replication for all collections.

### Attributes

- **Free Tier Allowance**: 10 GB
- **Rate Limit Cap**: 50 RPS
- **Session Lifetime**: 24 Hours
- **Overage Fee per 1k MAU**: 0.5 USD/GB
- **MFA Support**: Enforced via CockroachDB Cloud console MFA and organization access policies
- **Enterprise SSO SAML**: Available on Enterprise with SAML SSO and SCIM directory sync
- **Custom Domain Support**: Private connectivity via AWS PrivateLink and custom VPC peering
- **Supported SDKs**: PostgreSQL wire protocol, Prisma, Drizzle, Node.js, Python, Go, Java
- **Social Providers**: GitHub and Google OAuth for CockroachDB Cloud authentication
- **Compliance Standards**: SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, GDPR, HIPAA BAA on Enterprise agreements
- **Webhook Fallback Policy**: Changefeed exports to Kafka, cloud storage, or webhook endpoints with retry

## Entity B

- **Title**: [PlanetScale Serverless MySQL](https://saasspecs.com/item/planetscale/?format=md)
- **Schema type**: Corporation
- **Website**: https://planetscale.com
- **Email**: support@planetscale.com
- **Address**: 548 Howard Street, San Francisco, California, 94105, United States
- **Coordinates**: 37.7879, -122.3971
- **Deployment Link**: [Deploy PlanetScale Serverless MySQL Stack Layer](https://planetscale.com/pricing)

### Summary

Horizontally scalable MySQL-compatible database with non-blocking schema changes and git-style branch workflows.

### Description

PlanetScale delivers Vitess-powered MySQL with deploy requests for safe migrations, read replicas, and automatic query caching at the edge. Teams branch databases like code to test schema changes before production merge.

### Expert insight

Use deploy requests and shadow tables to validate schema migrations without locking production write traffic.

### Attributes

- **Free Tier Allowance**: 5 GB
- **Rate Limit Cap**: 1,000 Connections
- **Session Lifetime**: 8 Hours
- **Overage Fee per 1k MAU**: 1.5 USD/GB
- **MFA Support**: Enforced via PlanetScale organization two-factor authentication
- **Enterprise SSO SAML**: Supported on Enterprise plans with SAML SSO and audit logging
- **Custom Domain Support**: Private connectivity via AWS PrivateLink and custom host routing on paid tiers
- **Supported SDKs**: MySQL wire protocol, Prisma, Drizzle, Rails, Laravel, Node.js mysql2
- **Social Providers**: GitHub OAuth for organization login and deploy request automation
- **Compliance Standards**: SOC 2 Type II, GDPR; HIPAA and PCI available on Enterprise
- **Webhook Fallback Policy**: Deploy request webhooks with configurable retry via external automation hooks

## Facts (machine-readable)

| axis | unit | a_value | b_value | a_display | b_display |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Free Tier Allowance | GB | 10 | 5 | 10 GB | 5 GB |
| Rate Limit Cap | RPS | 50 | 1000 | 50 RPS | 1,000 Connections |
| Session Lifetime | Hours | 24 | 8 | 24 Hours | 8 Hours |
| Overage Fee per 1k MAU | USD/GB | 0.5 | 1.5 | 0.5 USD/GB | 1.5 USD/GB |

## Metrics

- **Free Tier Allowance**: 10 GB / 5 GB
- **Rate Limit Cap**: 50 RPS / 1,000 Connections
- **Session Lifetime**: 24 Hours / 8 Hours
- **Overage Fee per 1k MAU**: 0.5 USD/GB / 1.5 USD/GB

## Comparison context

This comparison covers the following catalog entities:

- [CockroachDB](https://saasspecs.com/item/cockroachdb/?format=md) (a)
- [PlanetScale Serverless MySQL](https://saasspecs.com/item/planetscale/?format=md) (b)