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Without marketing bs, what's something that can be done only with Cockroach and not postgres or other truly-OSS alternatives? I'm curios because I've been reading news about it forever but never had the chance to work with it

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Think of it as a replacement for spanner with a postgres frontend. It's about global availability and replication without application-level sharding.

Transactional workloads over datasets in the single digit petabytes.

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