ADoor vs CockroachDB Cloud
CockroachDB Cloud is a distributed, Postgres-compatible SQL database built to survive failures. ADoor, your data account, keeps the records a company shares across people, apps and assistants like ChatGPT, each with its own access.
Where ADoor stands out
Access to one list, not a cluster
CockroachDB's MCP server can be limited to one cluster, and is read-only by default. ADoor narrows further: one list, without one field, with adding, editing and deleting separate.
Capped at the person who connected it
In ADoor, an assistant never gets more than the person who connected it, and it asks before reaching anything new.
No usage meter
CockroachDB Basic charges $0.20 per million request units and $0.50 per GiB. ADoor's pricing is based on storage only.
The products
CockroachDB Cloud
CockroachDB Cloud offers Basic, Standard and Advanced plans of distributed SQL.
- Assistants
- A managed MCP server, read-only by default
- Access
- OAuth or API key, optionally scoped to one cluster
- Plans
- Basic is usage-based, with $15 of free usage a month on pay-as-you-go.
ADoor
ADoor is your data account. You keep lists and tables in a workspace you own, personal or team: a reading list, an incident log, a list of customers. Describe what you want to keep track of and it's set up for you, with real Postgres underneath. Every person, app, assistant, device and job gets its own access.
- Assistants
- ChatGPT, Claude, Grok and Cursor connect through MCP with a sign-in.
- Apps and scripts
- An HTTP API with keys, running the same actions assistants use
- Access
- Per space, list or field, or just the entries where a field equals a value you choose. Reading, adding, editing and deleting entries, and changing a list's fields, are separate permissions. An assistant never gets more than the person who connected it.
- Approvals
- Agents ask for more access and you approve or deny. A new device signs in only after you approve it and choose its access.
- CI jobs
- GitHub Actions signs in with short-lived access, 15 minutes by default and up to 30 days, with no stored secret.
- Revoking
- Takes effect on the next request. What was already saved stays.
- History
- A history of changes, with who made each one and the before and after
- Underneath
- Standard Postgres
- Plans
- Free for 3 tables and 100 rows. Pro is $10 a month per workspace, with 1 GB of storage.
Pricing
| Topic | ADoor | CockroachDB Cloud |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | 3 tables and 100 rows, with a few MB of storage | $15 of free usage a month on Basic, pay-as-you-go |
| Paid plans | Pro: $10 a month per workspace, 1 GB of storage, no per-GB charges | Basic $0.20 per million request units plus $0.50 per GiB; Standard $0.092 per vCPU-hour |
Latency
| Topic | ADoor | CockroachDB Cloud |
|---|---|---|
| Published figure | Not published | Not published |
ADoor doesn't publish a latency figure, and CockroachDB Cloud doesn't publish one we could find. Speed depends on your network and on what you ask for.
Connectors and API
| Topic | ADoor | CockroachDB Cloud |
|---|---|---|
| MCP server | Hosted, with OAuth sign-in. ChatGPT, Claude, Grok and Cursor. | Hosted at cockroachlabs.cloud/mcp |
| HTTP API | HTTP API with keys: read, add, edit, delete, and change lists and fields | Not published |
| SQL access | Standard Postgres SQL through MCP and the API, within your access | Postgres-compatible SQL |
| Access per agent | Its own access per assistant, app, device and job, down to specific fields, or just the entries that match a value you choose | Read-only by default, optionally one cluster |
| OAuth or tokens | OAuth for assistants, keys for apps, short-lived sign-in for GitHub Actions | OAuth with short-lived tokens, or an API key |
| SDKs | Coming soon | Not published |
| Webhooks | No | Not published |
| Import and export | Export to CSV or JSON. Import by attaching CSV or JSON in an assistant. | Change data capture to systems like Kafka |
ADoor has no sync connectors and no file storage.
Which one should you use?
Use CockroachDB Cloud when
your application needs a database that keeps running across zones and regions.
- Resilience. Distributed SQL designed to survive failures.
- Scale. Plans up to Advanced for the highest availability.
- Change data capture. Stream changes to systems like Kafka.
Use ADoor when
people and assistants need shared records with field-level access, without a cluster.
Technical
- Your payments platform writes chargebacks to an add-only list, and the risk team queries it in SQL without database credentials.
- A GitHub Actions job logs each failover drill with 15 minutes of access.
Personal
- Doctor and dentist appointments for the family, with who's taking whom. Your partner edits, the kids read.
- Bike serial numbers, models and where each was bought, ready if one is stolen.
Team
- SRE, support and account managers share a Maintenance windows list. SRE edits, others read.
- A history of changes shows who moved each window and when it was before.
- Support reads a Regions list that platform engineers edit, with a history of changes.
Business
- Regional teams edit only the entries for their region in a company-wide Capacity plan; leadership reads all.
- A managed services partner gets read access during an incident and is revoked afterwards.
Questions people ask
Does ADoor run across regions?
ADoor is hosted; it isn't something you deploy across regions.
Can I use SQL?
Yes, standard Postgres SQL through MCP and the API.
Which assistants work with ADoor?
ChatGPT, Claude, Grok and Cursor connect through MCP with a sign-in. You approve each one and choose what it can reach.
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Checked October 20, 2026. Sources: cockroachlabs.com/pricing, Plan a Basic cluster, CockroachDB Cloud MCP.