GreyCat vs TiDB Cloud
GreyCat
greycat.io
TiDB Cloud
pingcap.comSide by side
| Figure | GreyCat | TiDB Cloud |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | Free |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | Yes |
| Web | — | Yes |
| Linux | — | Yes |
| API | — | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 3 | 13 |
| Spec score · Database Software | 7.7 (#62) | 9.2 (#5) |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Enterprise connectors | Connectors include PostgreSQL, Kafka, OPC-UA, MQTT, S3, SFTP, OpenStreetMap and IFC. | Official integrations include Kubernetes via TiDB Operator, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, New Relic, Kafka, Flink, Confluent, Airbyte, Amazon AppFlow and dbt. |
| Self-hosting | GreyCat runs as a self-contained binary on the customer's own infrastructure. | TiDB Community can be deployed with TiDB Operator on Kubernetes or with Terraform-based AWS EKS and Google GKE procedures. |
Plans
TiDB Cloud
- TiDB Cloud StarterFree
- TiDB Cloud EssentialPrice not published
- TiDB Cloud Premium$1,800 a month
- TiDB Cloud Dedicated$0.22 a month
- StarterFree
- TiDB Cloud StarterFree
- Essential$400 a month
- Dedicated$1,376 a month
- Premium$1,800 a month
- TiDB Cloud Premium Preview$1,800 a month
In their own words
TiDB Cloud
TiDB Cloud is a managed cloud database service built around an open-source distributed SQL database with MySQL compatibility. It supports transactional and analytical workloads, horizontal scaling, multi-region deployment, and geo-partitioning across Starter, Essential, Premium, and Dedicated plans. Starter includes up to 25 GiB of row storage, 25 GiB of column storage, and 250 million Request Units per month per organization, for up to the first five instances. Its on-demand compute scales to zero when idle, and vector storage and search are in public preview. CSV, Parquet, and SQL file imports are supported across the listed plans. Email and password login, SSO options, private and public endpoints, and console audit logging are listed across all four plans. Prometheus, Grafana, and Datadog integrations are listed for Essential, Premium, and Dedicated in public preview. All users can submit billing and account support tickets; guaranteed technical-ticket response times require paid support plans. The service is available through web and API platforms. Starter is free; the Dedicated plan is listed as starting at $0.22 a month and from $1376 / month.