The top alternatives to TiDB are CockroachDB, TimescaleDB and ClickHouse, ranked by Staquest on relevance, shared use cases, and pricing. CockroachDB is the strongest free option.
Staquest ranks CockroachDB as the top alternative to TiDB — Cloud-native, distributed SQL database for global scale.. The full ranked list above compares 10 options.
CockroachDB offers a free tier and is the highest-ranked free alternative to TiDB in Staquest's analysis.
Staquest identifies 10 tools similar to TiDB using graph relationships, embedding similarity, and shared categories. The closest are CockroachDB, TimescaleDB, ClickHouse.
TimescaleDB is an open-source alternative to TiDB listed in this ranking.
Alternatives are ranked by verified relationships, semantic similarity, and category overlap.
