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Comparison

CockroachDB Cloud vs PlanetScale

Compare categories, runtimes, pricing, regions, infrastructure, and platform trade-offs.

Comparison space

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Platform

Hosting model
BYOC
BYOC
Managed
Managed
Database compatibility
MySQL
MySQL
PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL
Vitess
Vitess
Services
Managed Databases
Managed Databases
Database capabilities
Automated Backups
Automated Backups
Automatic Failover
Automatic Failover
Compute Autoscaling
Compute Autoscaling
Database Branching
Database Branching
Point-in-Time Recovery
Point-in-Time Recovery
Read Replicas
Read Replicas
Scale to Zero
Scale to Zero
Storage Autoscaling
Storage Autoscaling

Pricing

Compute billing
Plan based CockroachDB Cloud Plans
Instance based Cluster SKUs
Storage
  • Storage — $0.50 · per GiB-month beyond the included allowance
  • Included storage — $0 · first 10 GB storage per cluster
  • Storage overage — $0.50 · per GB-month
I/O / requests
  • Request Units — ~$0.20 · per additional million RUs
Unknown
Free entry / commitment
Recurring free allowances No card required
Self-service No sales interaction required.

Infrastructure & Availability

Infrastructure provider
  • Amazon Web Services
  • Google Cloud Platform
  • Microsoft Azure
  • Amazon Web Services
  • Google Cloud Platform
Execution & placement
  • Scope: Regional
  • Execution: Single Region
  • Execution: Multi Region
  • Scope: Regional
Availability footprint
Unknown
  • Managed cloud: 19 Regions

Security & Compliance

Access & identity
Single Sign-On
SAML, OIDC, and SCIM provisioning Cloud Organization SSO
SAML Base add-on; included with Enterprise
Access Control
Organization and cluster roles CockroachDB Cloud organizations
Unknown
Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
Unknown
TOTP PlanetScale accounts
Encryption & secrets
Encryption at Rest
Cloud disk encryption; customer-managed keys available CMEK on Advanced; supported clouds and regions only
All plans
Encryption in Transit
TLS 1.2+ at the perimeter; TLS 1.3 for client and inter-node traffic
TLS database connections All plans
Network isolation & protection
Private Networking
PrivateLink or VPC peering Standard and Advanced plans
Private database connectivity Deployment support applies
IP Allow List
Basic and higher plans
Database connections
Assurances & programs
HIPAA
HIPAA-ready Advanced plan; annual assessment and signed BAA required
Eligible use Qualifying customers; signed BAA and customer safeguards required
SOC Reports
SOC 2 Type II and SOC 3 CockroachDB Cloud managed services
SOC 1 Type II and SOC 2 Type II PlanetScale managed service