Comment by jordanthoms

Not quite any - in CockroachDB, all schema changes are non-blocking: https://www.cockroachlabs.com/docs/stable/online-schema-chan... . Yugabyte seems to be getting there with them also.

Still risks involved in migrations (mostly from the migration executing too quickly and creating high load in the cluster - the admission control system should have reduced this) and we have extra review steps for them, but it's been very useful to be able to migrate large tables without any extra application-level work.