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Who is TiDB Cloud best for?
Quick fit guide: Who is TiDB Cloud best for, who should avoid it, and what typically forces a switch.
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Best use cases for TiDB Cloud
- Applications with mixed OLTP and OLAP workloads where running a separate data warehouse for analytics would add cost and synchronization complexity — TiDB handles both workload types on the same cluster.
- MySQL-compatible applications that anticipate significant horizontal scale requirements and want a managed distributed database that starts with standard MySQL compatibility and scales without application changes.
- Teams evaluating CockroachDB alternatives who want a MySQL-compatible (rather than PostgreSQL-compatible) distributed SQL database with a managed cloud offering.
Who should avoid TiDB Cloud?
- You are early-stage and a single-node MySQL/Postgres is sufficient
- Your stack is deeply Postgres-centric and you need Postgres compatibility
- You need minimal complexity and fastest path to ship
- Your organization lacks the maturity to operate a distributed SQL model
Upgrade triggers for TiDB Cloud
- Need MySQL compatibility with distributed SQL patterns
- Need HTAP capabilities (real-time analytics on transactional data)
- Need horizontal scaling without sharding complexity
- Need multi-region MySQL-compatible database with strong consistency
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