“Enterprises don’t just pay for database capacity. They pay people to provision, monitor, tune, troubleshoot and scale these environments. If Cockroach can automate a meaningful portion of that work, there is value there and a chance to offset costs,” said Ashish Chaturvedi, executive research leader at HFS Research.
For more direct infrastructure-related cost savings via Continuum, though, CIOs will need to look at how their database estates are provisioned.
Stephanie Walter, practice lead of AI stack at HyperFrame Research, said the greatest savings will come from large fleets of independently provisioned databases that spend much of their time underused: “Sharing capacity across workloads with different demand patterns could substantially improve utilization,” she said.
