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Comparison

TiDB vs YugabyteDB

No clear leader: TiDB (59.5) and YugabyteDB (58.7) are within the 5-point margin; treat as a tie. The attribute-by-attribute breakdown below, with a source and date on every value, is the honest way to compare them.

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TiDB60
YugabyteDB59
Score
Vioscale score
TiDB60 / 100medium · 61%
YugabyteDB59 / 100medium · 71%
Pricing
Free tier
TiDB✓
YugabyteDB✓
Model
TiDBfreemium
YugabyteDBcommercial
Price level
TiDBlow
YugabyteDBhigh
Transparent
TiDB✗
YugabyteDB✓
Integrations
Count
TiDB4
YugabyteDB1
Security
Disclosure policy
TiDB–
YugabyteDB✓
Gdpr
TiDB✓
YugabyteDB✓
Iso27001
TiDB–
YugabyteDB✓
Pci
TiDB✓
YugabyteDB–
Soc2
TiDB✓
YugabyteDB✓
Reliability
Sla pct
TiDB99.99
YugabyteDB–
Status page
TiDB✓
YugabyteDB✓

Capabilities

Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for relational databases. “-” means undocumented, not absent.

Core
SQL model
TiDBFull SQL
YugabyteDBFull SQL
Transactions
ACID transactions
TiDBFull
YugabyteDBFull
Highest isolation level
TiDB-
YugabyteDBSerializable
Consistency
Consistency
TiDB-
YugabyteDBStrong
Scale
Horizontal scale
TiDBNatively distributed
YugabyteDBNatively distributed
Replication
Replication
TiDB-
YugabyteDBConsensus (Raft/Paxos)
Availability
Automatic failover / HA
TiDB-
YugabyteDB✓
Deployment
Deployment
TiDB-
YugabyteDBSelf-hosted
Serverless / scale-to-zero
TiDB-
YugabyteDB-
Compatibility
Wire compatibility
TiDBMySQL protocol
YugabyteDBPostgres protocol
Extensibility
Extensions / plugins / UDFs
TiDB-
YugabyteDB✓
Licensing
Licence class
TiDBPermissive OSS
YugabyteDBPermissive OSS
Data types
JSON / document support
TiDB-
YugabyteDB✓
Geo / spatial
TiDB-
YugabyteDB-

What each one is

The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.

TiDB

An open-source distributed SQL database trusted by innovators to power transactional, AI, and other modern applications.

Independently observed

YugabyteDB

A distributed SQL database designed for mission-critical transactional data, available as open source software or managed cloud services with multi-region and high-availability capabilities.

Independently observed

Pricing

List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.

TiDB

HybridFree tier
  • TiDB Cloud StarterFree
  • TiDB Cloud DedicatedContact sales
as of verify ↗

YugabyteDB

from $125/moHybridFree tier

From $125/vCPU/month. Free tier available. Storage and data transfer costs additional.

  • Standard$125/vCPU/month
    • PostgreSQL API (YSQL)
    • Cassandra API (YCQL)
    • Change Data Capture
    • Single-region fault tolerance
    • PostgreSQL extensions
    • +7 more
  • Professional$167/vCPU/month
    • All Standard features
    • Multi-region stretched clusters
    • Read Replicas
    • Row-level geo-partitioning for data residency
    • Performance Advisor
    • +3 more
  • EnterpriseContact sales
    • All Professional features
    • Customer Managed Keys (CMK) encryption at rest
    • Single Sign On via OpenID Connect (OIDC)
as of verify ↗

Platform & deployment

Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.

Platforms
Web
TiDB✓
YugabyteDB–
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
TiDB✓
YugabyteDB✓
Self-hosted
TiDB✓
YugabyteDB✓
Hybrid
TiDB✗
YugabyteDB✓

Integrations

What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.

TiDB

4 total
  • Cursor
  • JDBC
  • mysql-connector-python
  • MySQL
Independently observed

YugabyteDB

1 total
  • Arctype SQL Client
Independently observed

Comparison generated from independently-sourced facts. Every value links to its source and retrieval date. See the method.