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CockroachDB
CommunityDistributed SQL database that speaks the Postgres wire protocol — built for resilience and horizontal scale.
| Runs | cockroachdb/cockroach:v26.2.8 |
|---|---|
| Stack | database |
| Provisioned for it | Nothing, it's self-contained |
| Verified | Not yet |
Why deploy on Railyard
Railyard runs it standalone on a server you already pay for — no addons to provision, with zero-downtime deploys and scaling still included.
Deploying CockroachDB is one piece of a bigger stack you can keep building — add a database, a worker, a cache, or another app, all on the same servers you already pay for.
Good for
- A Postgres-wire-compatible SQL database with built-in resilience and horizontal scale-out
- Multi-region applications that need strong consistency without manual sharding
- Testing or running workloads designed for CockroachDB's distributed semantics
Good to know
- Runs as a single node in --insecure mode — fine for development or an internal/private workload, not for anything holding data you'd mind losing without TLS and real auth
- This template doesn't expose the DB console (8080) — connect with any Postgres client against the SQL port (26257)
- Single-node means no built-in replication; it's the distributed-SQL engine without the distribution — use CockroachDB Cloud or a hand-rolled multi-node cluster if you need that