# CockroachDB vs TiDB

**Leader by vioscaleAI score:** CockroachDB

| Attribute | CockroachDB | TiDB |
|---|---|---|
| **vioscaleAI score** | 65 (65% (medium)) | 48.5 (19% (low)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | 11 | - |
| adoption.dependent_repos | 235 | - |
| adoption.github_stars | 32,549 | - |
| content.faq | `[{"answer":"A distributed SQL database that runs across multiple cloud platforms and on-premises environments, providing automatic failover, strong consistency, and horizontal scaling without manual sharding. It is indexed under Relational Databases.","source":"https://www.cockroachlabs.com/pricing/legacy/","question":"What is CockroachDB?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"CockroachDB offers a free tier, so you can start without paying. Paid plans start at $146 per month. Prices are published openly on the vendor's own pricing page. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://www.cockroachlabs.com/pricing/legacy/","question":"Is CockroachDB free?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"CockroachDB supports the web and a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.","source":"https://www.cockroachlabs.com/pricing/legacy/","question":"What platforms does CockroachDB support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. CockroachDB can be deployed cloud / SaaS, hybrid, on-premise and self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.","source":"https://www.cockroachlabs.com/pricing/legacy/","question":"Can CockroachDB be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 16 integrations for CockroachDB, including Datadog, Splunk, Dynatrace, New Relic, Terraform, Vercel, HashiCorp and pgvector, plus 8 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://www.cockroachlabs.com/pricing/legacy/","question":"What does CockroachDB integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have independently confirmed SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA and GDPR for CockroachDB. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as CockroachDB not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.","source":"https://www.cockroachlabs.com/trust-center/","question":"What security certifications does CockroachDB have?","confidence":0.7}]` | `[{"answer":"An open-source database designed for distributed deployment that's compatible with MySQL. It provides full ACID transaction support and can simultaneously handle transactional queries and complex analytics without requiring separate systems, including support for vector search. It is indexed under Relational Databases.","source":"https://www.pingcap.com","question":"What is TiDB?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"TiDB is open source, so it can be self-hosted and used at no licence cost. Paid editions are also offered: TiDB Cloud Dedicated, priced on request. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://www.pingcap.com","question":"Is TiDB free to use?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed browser-based access to TiDB. That is the extent of what we could verify from public sources, so it may well offer desktop or mobile clients we have not indexed.","source":"https://www.pingcap.com","question":"What platforms does TiDB support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. TiDB can be deployed self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.","source":"https://www.pingcap.com","question":"Can TiDB be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 3 integrations for TiDB, including Cursor, JDBC and mysql-connector-python. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://www.pingcap.com","question":"What does TiDB integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have independently confirmed SOC 2 and GDPR for TiDB. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as TiDB not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.","source":"https://www.pingcap.com/trust","question":"What security certifications does TiDB have?","confidence":0.7}]` |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true,"hybrid":true,"on_prem":true,"self_hosted":true}` | `{"cloud":true,"on_prem":true,"self_hosted":true}` |
| description.long | A cloud-native SQL database that scales automatically across machines without manual sharding, supporting ACID transactions and multi-region deployments. It survives node, zone, and regional failures with minimal disruption and is compatible with PostgreSQL applications. | An open-source, distributed SQL database that provides ACID transactions with automatic scaling from zero to peak load. It maintains MySQL protocol compatibility and supports both analytical and transactional workloads on unified data. |
| features.capabilities | `{"hosting":"both","free_tier":true,"isolation":"serializable","sql_model":"full_sql","data_model":"relational","deployment":"managed","serverless":true,"consistency":"strong","geo_spatial":"none","replication":"consensus","sql_support":true,"engine_family":"postgresql","extensibility":false,"json_document":false,"license_class":"source_available","managed_cloud":true,"pricing_model":"tiered_plus_usage","deployment_type":"independent_multi_cloud","horizontal_scale":"distributed_native","acid_transactions":"full","automatic_failover":true,"horizontal_scaling":true,"private_networking":true,"wire_compatibility":"postgres","self_host_alternative":true,"multi_region_replication":true}` | `{"sql_model":"full_sql","serverless":true,"license_class":"permissive","horizontal_scale":"distributed_native","acid_transactions":"full","wire_compatibility":"mysql"}` |
| integrations.count | 6 | 26 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"Datadog"},{"name":"Splunk"},{"name":"Dynatrace"},{"name":"New Relic"},{"name":"Terraform"},{"name":"Vercel"},{"name":"HashiCorp"},{"name":"pgvector"},{"name":"AWS"},{"name":"GCP"},{"name":"Azure"},{"name":"Kubernetes"},{"name":"MOLT (Migration Tool)"},{"name":"PostgreSQL drivers"},{"name":"SQLAlchemy"},{"name":"Google Cloud","native":true,"category":"cloud"}]` | `[{"name":"Cursor"},{"name":"JDBC"},{"name":"mysql-connector-python"},{"name":"MySQL"},{"name":"Kubernetes","native":true,"category":"infrastructure","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Apache Spark","native":false,"category":"analytics","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"Kafka","native":false,"category":"streaming","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"Confluent","native":false,"category":"streaming","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"Datadog","native":false,"category":"monitoring","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"New Relic","native":false,"category":"monitoring","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"Airbyte","native":false,"category":"data-integration","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"AWS AppFlow","native":false,"category":"data-integration","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"dbt","native":false,"category":"analytics","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"Superset","native":false,"category":"dashboards","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Terraform","native":true,"category":"infrastructure","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"CloudFormation","native":false,"category":"infrastructure","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"AWS","native":true,"category":"cloud","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Google Cloud","native":true,"category":"cloud","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Azure","native":true,"category":"cloud","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Alibaba Cloud","native":true,"category":"cloud","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"AWS Lambda","native":false,"category":"compute","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Vercel","native":false,"category":"deployment","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Netlify","native":false,"category":"deployment","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Hibernate","native":false,"category":"orm","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Prisma","native":false,"category":"orm","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"SQLAlchemy","native":false,"category":"orm","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"PyMySQL","native":false,"category":"driver","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Zapier","native":false,"category":"automation","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"n8n","native":false,"category":"automation","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Model Context Protocol","native":false,"category":"protocol","direction":"inbound"}]` |
| language.primary | Go | - |
| market.availability | `{"primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | `{"primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` | `{"web":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"usage","plans":[{"free":false,"name":"Standard","summary":"From $0.057/vCPU-hr, 99.99% SLA","features":["99.99% availability SLA","Single- or multi-region on AWS and GCP","Row-level security","Column-level encryption","Private connectivity","CDC add-on available","1-hour P1 support response"],"components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"vCPU-hour"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.057,"currency":"USD"},{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"GiB-month"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.155,"currency":"USD"}],"description":"For most applications, quick to start and less to manage.","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Mission Critical","summary":"$0.162/vCPU-hr, 99.999% SLA","features":["99.999% availability SLA with multi-region","Egress controls","CMEK","PCI DSS & HIPAA compliance","All add-ons available","30-minute P1 support response"],"components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"vCPU-hour"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.162,"currency":"USD"}],"description":"For production applications that need the highest availability and support.","contactSales":false}],"addOns":[{"name":"Change Data Capture (CDC)","components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"vCPU-hour"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.006,"currency":"USD"}]},{"name":"Physical Cluster Replication (PCR)","components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"vCPU-hour"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.023,"currency":"USD"}]}],"summary":"From $0.057/vCPU-hr. Free 30-day trial with $400 credit.","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.cockroachlabs.com/pricing/","retrievedAt":"2026-10-05T10:08:18.278Z","freeTrialDays":30,"startingPrice":{"unit":"vCPU-hour","amount":0.057,"currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["month"]}` | `{"type":"hybrid","plans":[{"free":true,"name":"TiDB Cloud Starter"},{"free":false,"name":"TiDB Cloud Dedicated","contactSales":true}],"freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.pingcap.com","retrievedAt":"2026-08-13T16:48:29.248Z"}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | yes |
| pricing.model | freemium | open_source |
| pricing.price_level | low | free |
| pricing.starting_price | `{"amount":0.057,"currency":"USD"}` | - |
| pricing.transparent | yes | no |
| reliability.sla_pct | 99.99 | 99.99 |
| reliability.status_page | - | yes |
| security.certifications | `[{"name":"SOC 2 Type II","level":"Type II","status":"active","auditor":"AICPA"},{"name":"SOC 3","status":"active","auditor":"AICPA"},{"name":"ISO 27001","status":"active"},{"name":"ISO 27017","status":"active"},{"name":"ISO 27018","status":"active"},{"name":"ISO 42001","status":"in_progress"},{"name":"HIPAA","status":"active"},{"name":"PCI DSS","status":"active"}]` | - |
| security.disclosure_policy | yes | - |
| security.gdpr | yes | yes |
| security.hipaa | yes | - |
| security.iso27001 | yes | - |
| security.pci | yes | yes |
| security.scorecard | 5.1 | - |
| security.soc2 | yes | yes |
| security.trust_center | https://www.cockroachlabs.com/trust-center/ | - |
| security.vulnerabilities | `{"count":0,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=go&package_name=github.com%2Fcockroachdb%2Fcockroach&per_page=100","last_12m":0,"max_severity":null}` | - |

## Capabilities (Relational Databases)

| Capability | CockroachDB | TiDB |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Core** |  |  |
| SQL model | Full SQL | Full SQL |
| **Transactions** |  |  |
| ACID transactions | Full | Full |
| Highest isolation level | Serializable | - |
| **Consistency** |  |  |
| Consistency | Strong | - |
| **Scale** |  |  |
| Horizontal scale | Natively distributed | Natively distributed |
| **Replication** |  |  |
| Replication | Consensus (Raft/Paxos) | - |
| **Availability** |  |  |
| Automatic failover / HA | ✓ | - |
| **Deployment** |  |  |
| Deployment | Managed | - |
| Serverless / scale-to-zero | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Compatibility** |  |  |
| Wire compatibility | Postgres protocol | MySQL protocol |
| **Extensibility** |  |  |
| Extensions / plugins / UDFs | ✗ | - |
| **Licensing** |  |  |
| Licence class | Source-available (BSL/SSPL) | Permissive OSS |
| **Data types** |  |  |
| JSON / document support | ✗ | - |
| Geo / spatial | None | - |

*Source: vioscaleAI. Generated 2026-10-16T19:01:57.092Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*