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Archera vs TiDB Cloud comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Archera
Average Rating
9.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.2
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Cost Management (28th)
TiDB Cloud
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
5.9
Number of Reviews
11
Ranking in other categories
Database as a Service (DBaaS) (9th)
 

Mindshare comparison

Archera and TiDB Cloud aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. Archera is designed for Cloud Cost Management and holds a mindshare of 0.6%, up 0.1% compared to last year.
TiDB Cloud, on the other hand, focuses on Database as a Service (DBaaS), holds 2.2% mindshare.
Cloud Cost Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Archera0.6%
IBM Turbonomic5.9%
Cloudability5.4%
Other88.1%
Cloud Cost Management
Database as a Service (DBaaS) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
TiDB Cloud2.2%
MongoDB Atlas11.8%
Amazon RDS11.7%
Other74.3%
Database as a Service (DBaaS)
 

Featured Reviews

LJ
Medical professor at University of Lamar
Resource management in neuroscience has become faster and data-driven and now supports better studies
From my experience now, Archera has a very good program and useful tools. It is great, but as I said earlier, you can show more through social networks, sites, or training to help people use these tools. Formation is more specific. How can people such as me study and learn more about your program? Initially, they are very happy with Archera, which I appreciate. But perhaps if we can use the tool with more than one group of people and have shared information, that would be very good. If you understand me, it is about training and allowing more people to use it simultaneously. I see that when they are using it in their department, this group has maybe ten or twelve people who know about it. When I saw that, I thought it was incredible, and I want more information about it. They have given me information, but I want to learn by myself.
Ece Ece - PeerSpot reviewer
Software developer at Student
Hybrid workloads have powered real-time analytics and simplified scaling for critical services
TiDB Cloud offers horizontal scalability. You can scale TiDB Cloud simply by adding more nodes with no manual sharding. That is a significant advantage over traditional MySQL setups. It also supports MySQL compatibility, as it supports the MySQL protocol and syntax. It has hybrid transactional and analytical processing for real-time analytics on data, so no separate data warehouse is needed. It supports ACID transactions and high availability. Another feature of TiDB Cloud is the cloud-native design. It works smoothly with modern infrastructures such as elastic scaling, container-ready orchestration, and microservice architecture. It separates the SQL layer from the storage layer for independent scaling and a flexible architecture. It is an enterprise-grade design. TiDB Cloud has positively impacted my organization, especially where massive scale and real-time analytics were needed. It powers core cloud services. We have used HTAP workloads, what we call STAP workloads, or the cloud-managed service. My job was to handle the cloud network for financial data.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Archera is an all-in-one unit; all work is done in one specific way, which is very good for me."
"The platform is very user-friendly, and it's helpful to have all the tools readily available without needing to send an email or do extra work."
"Using the product is a very smooth process, and they help you every step of the way, so it has been great and will not be hard for anyone to join and start using the product."
"The ability to reuse information across documents helps my team as it saves time and reduces errors because we do not have to rewrite the same information anymore."
"TiDB Cloud has a broader scope that offers multiple services. It can be compared to major cloud providers like AWS, Microsoft Azure, and GCP."
"TiDB Cloud's managed cloud infrastructure has reduced maintenance for our team and allowed us to focus more on development and analytics instead of database operations."
"According to my experience, TiDB Cloud is very easy to use because we don't need to maintain much in TiDB, all the activities are mostly automated there, and we can easily monitor the performance."
"TiDB Cloud's scalability is the best in the business."
"There are cost savings because of TiDB Cloud; we save a lot of money on hardware, we need fewer employees for maintenance, and we have less downtime which helps our business be much more successful."
"If cost is not a concern, I believe TiDB Cloud is the best option among traditional databases due to its distributed architecture which supports high availability and auto-scaling."
"I have experienced full 100% stability with TiDB Cloud."
 

Cons

"Maybe there are some tiny improvements regarding the UI, the configuration aspect, or integration capabilities."
"From my experience now, Archera has a very good program and useful tools. It is great, but as I said earlier, you can show more through social networks, sites, or training to help people use these tools."
"We don't have issues. We discussed with them that we wanted to have other clouds implemented with us, and they have been very helpful, going step by step in solving that issue."
"If you do not have an option to have a replication from MySQL to TiDB, you can go ahead and simply use TiDB Cloud because it is far more efficient than maintaining TiDB on-premises, but if you have a DM kind of solution, which is not yet there in TiDB Cloud, you might have to stick around with native TiDB."
"I think TiDB Cloud could be improved from a marketing perspective, as it competes with PostgreSQL in the space, where many people know or use PostgreSQL."
"It is very unusual and jarring that the IDs in different tables jump and do not start from zero."
"From my point of view, TiDB Cloud requires more nodes to run the environment because for a self-hosted environment it needs to deploy three PD, three TiKV, and two TiFlash minimum. I think this is more costly than our traditional databases such as MySQL, MongoDB, or PostgreSQL."
"There should be the ability to replicate auto-increment sequences from the production environment to the disaster recovery environment."
"On a scale of one to ten, I would rate the customer support for TiDB Cloud at about a six."
"TiDB Cloud can be improved, particularly because the interface is very old."
"One area where TiDB Cloud can be improved is making advanced monitoring and query optimization insights more intuitive for new users because understanding distributed query performance still requires a learning curve."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
34%
Healthcare Company
9%
Financial Services Firm
6%
Comms Service Provider
6%
Construction Company
20%
Manufacturing Company
12%
Outsourcing Company
8%
Comms Service Provider
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business4
Large Enterprise3
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business7
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise2
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Archera?
From my experience now, Archera has a very good program and useful tools. It is great, but as I said earlier, you can show more through social networks, sites, or training to help people use these ...
What is your primary use case for Archera?
Over the past six months, I have had contact with Archera, and other doctors told me about them. In the Department of Science and Research, I discuss the program, and they demonstrate the quality o...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for TiDB Cloud?
TiDB Cloud's pricing is generally flexible and usage-based, which works well for us because we could scale costs with workload. Setup cost was low since it is a managed service, and we did not need...
What needs improvement with TiDB Cloud?
One area where TiDB Cloud can be improved is making advanced monitoring and query optimization insights more intuitive for new users because understanding distributed query performance still requir...
What is your primary use case for TiDB Cloud?
Our main use cases for TiDB Cloud are handling large-scale transactional data and running real-time analytics on the same platform for scalable applications. In one project, I used TiDB Cloud to su...
 

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