Oracle, traditionally a dominant force in the database market, faces challenges with its Globally Distributed Database (GDD) as CockroachDB emerges as a strong competitor in the distributed SQL domain. Oracle's GDD, launched in March 2024, is criticized for its complexity and reliance on a sharding layer that fails to deliver true distributed SQL capabilities, resulting in operational bottlenecks and limited resilience. In contrast, CockroachDB offers a cloud-native, Postgres-compatible solution that excels in automated fault tolerance, strong ACID consistency, and seamless global performance, making it more suitable for enterprises needing scalable, resilient, and cost-efficient databases. Oracle's architecture, with its multi-layered components, struggles with issues like cross-shard transaction limitations, lack of global indexing, and constrained replication factors, which hinder its ability to meet modern business demands. CockroachDB, designed for flexibility and ease of deployment across various infrastructures, provides streamlined multi-region data placement and online schema changes, positioning it as a modern alternative to Oracle's legacy approach.