For teams evaluating distributed SQL solutions, both CockroachDB and TiDB can seem like strong contenders, each offering features designed to meet the demands of modern, scalable applications. CockroachDB is known for its focus on resilience, global consistency, and effortless scalability, while TiDB emphasizes MySQL compatibility and hybrid transactional/analytical processing (HTAP).
Understanding the key differences between these databases is critical to choosing the right fit for your specific workload and long-term needs. This comparison sheds light on their unique strengths, trade-offs, and use cases to help you make an informed decision.
CockroachDB offers native scale with a single binary, ensuring that running and upgrading CockroachDB is as simple as possible.
CockroachDB provides a simple DDL that allows you to define where data lives across multiple regions.
CockroachDB was architected for complex, high performant distributed transactions with serializable isolation as the default.