CockroachDB

Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 3 years (2018–2020), in 4 threads.

People raised many different problems with CockroachDB, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 5 complaints

Bugs are hard to find; searching issues returns hundreds of hits2020-05-06
Internal tools become painful to manage because they require SSL setup first2020-02-07
Must manually create and distribute certificates to each node before auth works2020-02-07
Certificate setup is horrible; passwords unavailable without certificates, all-or-nothing2019-07-18
Key management is a nightmare with no good plan from the vendor2018-11-29