# CockroachDB alternatives: what AI models name instead, November 2026

Gane Index, November 2026 Edition. 238 of the 252 answers in the 1 category where CockroachDB holds a standing named it neither first nor as an alternative; these are the first choices those answers made. Page: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/cockroachdb/alternatives

## Named instead, most often (every category and segment added)

- Amazon RDS: 66
- Amazon Aurora: 33
- Supabase: 30
- Azure SQL Database: 15
- DigitalOcean Managed Databases: 12
- Google Cloud SQL: 12

## Managed relational databases

**Small business**: 79 of 84 answers did not name CockroachDB.

- Supabase: first choice in 26 of those 79
- Amazon RDS: first choice in 17 of those 79
- DigitalOcean Managed Databases: first choice in 8 of those 79
- Neon: first choice in 7 of those 79
- PlanetScale: first choice in 4 of those 79
- Amazon Aurora: first choice in 3 of those 79
- Google Cloud SQL: first choice in 3 of those 79
- Azure SQL Database: first choice in 2 of those 79

**Mid-market**: 81 of 84 answers did not name CockroachDB (CockroachDB is #11 of 11 at 0%).

- Amazon RDS: first choice in 33 of those 81
- Amazon Aurora: first choice in 8 of those 81
- Azure SQL Database: first choice in 6 of those 81
- DigitalOcean Managed Databases: first choice in 4 of those 81
- Google Cloud SQL: first choice in 4 of those 81
- Supabase: first choice in 4 of those 81
- Neon: first choice in 2 of those 81
- AWS Amazon RDS: first choice in 1 of those 81

**Enterprise**: 78 of 84 answers did not name CockroachDB (CockroachDB is #8 of 8 at 0%).

- Amazon Aurora: first choice in 22 of those 78
- Amazon RDS: first choice in 16 of those 78
- Azure SQL Database: first choice in 7 of those 78
- Google Cloud SQL: first choice in 5 of those 78
- Azure SQL Managed Instance: first choice in 2 of those 78
- AWS: first choice in 1 of those 78
- Amazon Aurora I/O-Optimized: first choice in 1 of those 78
- Azure SQL Database / Managed Instance: first choice in 1 of those 78

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