TiDB / PingCAP
China · Beijing / CA
alternative to MySQL / PostgreSQL / CockroachDB
Open-source distributed NewSQL (HTAP), MySQL-compatible.
Why it fits
- ✓ Open source
- ✓ Self-hostable
- AI stack
Regional alternatives
Model & licence
- Licence
- Apache 2.0
Independence & portability
Strategic independence · 92/100
- Deployment
- on prem
- Data control
- self hosted
- Portability
- high
- Supply-chain
- high
- Ecosystem
- mature
- Openness
- open source (15/15)
Procurement/migration signal, not a certification. As of 2026-10. Apache-licensed, MySQL-compatible, self-hostable. How this is scored.
Company & market
- Parent company
- PingCAP
- Registered
- Beijing / CA
- Listing
- Private
- Ticker
- —
- Market cap / val. (USD)
- ~$3 B (Series D)
- Foreign-investable
- No