There’s no need for consolidation when Postgres already exists.
https://github.com/citusdata/citus
(Citus engineer)
So not (IBM-System-)R-compatible, then?
NGL, I've had to explain to enough people by now that the "funny name" is because it was made by ex-Googlers with a view towards resiliency, as per the idiom that only cockroaches will survive global nuclear war.
In the real world, it is extremely hard to provide all the same guarantees you get out of a single instance of <database vendor> if you turn around and spread it across the internet.
If you have super deep control over the physical & temporal environment around your system, you can cheat the rules a little bit (i.e. Google).
CockroachDB has an explicit clause is the licensing: Yes, employees and contractors can use your internal CockroachDB instance as a service, but no people outside of your organization will be able to use it without purchasing a license: https://www.cockroachlabs.com/docs/v21.1/licensing-faqs.html....