PolarDB-X comparisons

Paid#7 of 25 in Distributed SQL Databases

PolarDB-X is compared head-to-head with Google Cloud Spanner, TiDB Cloud and CockroachDB Cloud and more: 7 head-to-heads in Distributed SQL Databases, each with the specs and prices we checked.

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PolarDB-X head-to-head

• PolarDB-X vs Google Cloud Spanner
• PolarDB-X vs TiDB Cloud
• PolarDB-X vs CockroachDB Cloud
• PolarDB-X vs Oracle Globally Distributed AI Database
• ODPolarDB-X vs OceanBase Database
• YPolarDB-X vs YDB
• HGPolarDB-X vs Huawei GaussDB

PolarDB-X vs each of them

#	Tool	Free plan	Paid from	Deployment model	MySQL compatibility	Horizontal scaling	Multi-region deployment	Score
7	PolarDB-X			Both	Yes	Yes	Yes	8.5
1	Google Cloud Spanner	No		Both	No	Yes	Yes	9.4
2	TiDB Cloud	Yes		Cloud	Yes	Yes	Yes	9.2
3	CockroachDB Cloud	No	$0.06/unit usage-based					9.0
4	Oracle Globally Distributed AI Database			Both		Yes	Yes	8.8
5	ODOceanBase Database	Yes		Both	Yes	Yes	Yes	8.7
6	YYDB		Free	Both		Yes	Yes	8.6
8	HGHuawei GaussDB			Cloud	Yes	Yes	Yes	8.4

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