[latch]

We're happy CockroachDB users.

Can't put my finger on why, but this report comes off as almost pure marketing and not very substantive (say compared to the Backblaze reports). Maybe it's because I had to give an email (mailinator) with no option to opt-out of marketing emails to read it. Maybe it's because it seemed to try to paint all three as winners.

We run CRDB on baremetal. I'd love to see how that stacks up - but I guess their managed offering is a major money maker.

It's a shame because there's clearly a lot of effort put into it and I love the work they're doing (and how they do it).

I will say that, as a non-cloud-believer, I'm much happier dealing with Google Cloud than AWS. It's straightforward and doesn't require nearly as much vendor-specific knowledge. The console is more user-friendly, and things are usually cheaper and faster (but still so much more expensive and slower than just using a dedicated host).

[derefr]

> Maybe it’s because it seemed to try to paint all three as winners.

Compared to the rest of the market, AWS + Azure + GCP are all winners. They’re all huge, all growing, and all outpacing the growth of traditional non-“cloud” hosting providers by a long shot. They’re also all greatly beating out any other cloud providers who aren’t them, e.g. IBM Cloud (nee Softlayer.)

They’re essentially dividing up the hosting market together, like any good cabal.

Compared to the growth all three of the big cloud providers are experiencing, the relative growth margins they use to claim that one of them is “the biggest” are basically noise.

To put it another way: I’d much rather invest in all three of them, than in just one of them.

[latch]

Take the telecom companies (AT&T, Telefonica, Tata, China Unicom, and on and on and on and on (these companies have hundreds of data centers each)). Then take the wholesalers (Equinix, Digital Realty, etc) - some of who count some cloud vendors as customers. Then take tens of thousand of collocation and dedicated providers that own their own data centers (PhoenixNap, HE, OVH, Hetzner, Softlayer, ...). Then take the VPS providers (Linode, DO, Vultr, ....). Then take the shared hosting (GoDaddy, ..). Then take the government agencies and companies that have their own private data centers (e.g, banks).

Cloud vendors are growing, but it's still a very small part of the market. What they're really good at is sales and marketing (and making much better margins.)

[autoditype]

I agree, the results aren't substantive and don't directly correspond to such a one-sided title, as the results are much more nuanced and varied

[systemvoltage]

I wouldn't touch this thing purely based on the name - CockroachDB. Yes, its unfair but they're absolutely asking for it. I am going to be dealing with this all day, I don't want to develop some kind of a Pavlovian conditioning with the name where everytime I think about databases, I think about cockroaches and all the disgusting things they do.

What a monumentally stupid name.