On the day that this blog post was written, CockroachDB was only at beta-20170112 and didn't even had a production release yet.
v1.0 was released on May 10, 2017 [1], so I doubt it was even on their mind when they started working on the project.
v1.0 was released on May 10, 2017 [1], so I doubt it was even on their mind when they started working on the project.