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Convex vs TiDB Serverless
Convex provides a reactive backend for TypeScript, whereas TiDB Cloud is a general-purpose distributed SQL DBaaS.
ConvexReactive backend database for TypeScript apps
TiDB Serverless🔥🔥🔥 A MySQL compatible serverless database with auto scaling and real-time analysis.Which to pick
Pick Convex if you want…
- Reactive TypeScript backend with built-in AI support
- Reactive TypeScript backend
- Integrations with TypeScript, Node.js or Stripe (on Convex's list, not TiDB Serverless')
Pick TiDB Serverless if you want…
- Serverless MySQL-compatible analytics
- Integrations with MySQL, AWS or Google Cloud (on TiDB Serverless' list, not Convex's)
Side by side
- What it is
- Convex:Convex is a reactive, TypeScript-first backend platform offering database, functions, sync, search and AI-ready features.
- TiDB Serverless:TiDB Cloud is a fully managed, MySQL-compatible serverless database with auto-scaling, real-time analytics and pay-as-you-go pricing.
- Best for
- Convex:Reactive TypeScript backend with built-in AI support
- TiDB Serverless:Serverless MySQL-compatible analytics
- Who it’s for
- Convex:Developers building TypeScript apps, AI agents and real-time applications.
- TiDB Serverless:Developers and teams building data-intensive apps that need MySQL compatibility and elastic scaling.
- Pricing
- Convex:Freemium
- TiDB Serverless:Freemium
- Plans
- Convex:Free $0 · Professional $25 per developer/month per month · Enterprise $2,500 monthly minimum per month
- TiDB Serverless:TiDB Cloud Starter $0/month · TiDB Cloud Essential Preview ≈$20 / day per day · TiDB Cloud Premium Preview $1800 / month per month · TiDB Cloud Dedicated $0.22/hr per hour
- Open source
- Convex:Yes, 12,633 GitHub stars
- TiDB Serverless:Yes, 40,624 GitHub stars
- Works with
- Convex:TypeScript, Node.js, Stripe, Twilio, PostHog, Workpool, Workflow, AI Gateway
- TiDB Serverless:MySQL, AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, Alibaba Cloud, Kubernetes, Apache Spark, Apache Kafka
Convex features
- Reactive database. ACID-compliant, type-safe database that updates clients in real time.
- End-to-end type safety. Ensures TypeScript types are enforced across schema, functions and client code.
- Automatic caching & scaling. Handles caching and scales automatically to support viral workloads.
- Real-time sync. Pushes data changes instantly to all connected users.
- Workpool background jobs. Runs model calls and jobs with retries, backoff and parallelism.
- Workflow engine. Multi-step processes that checkpoint, retry and resume automatically.
TiDB Serverless features
- Serverless autoscaling. On-demand compute scales to zero when idle and automatically expands with workload.
- MySQL compatibility. Drop-in compatible with MySQL, enabling easy migration of existing applications.
- Real-time HTAP analytics. Run low-latency analytical queries on billions of rows alongside transactional workloads.
- Multi-cloud deployment. Available in over 30 regions on AWS, Google Cloud, Azure and Alibaba Cloud.
- Built-in security. Encryption at rest and in transit, IAM, VPC peering and optional CMEK for enterprise plans.
- Fully managed operations. Automated upgrades, health monitoring, backups and failover handled by PingCAP.
- Free tier storage. Permanent 5 GB storage (25 GiB row + 25 GiB column) and 250 M request units per month at no cost.
- Enterprise resilience. 99.99% availability, multi-zone protection and PCI-DSS/SOC 2 compliance for dedicated clusters.
Convex vs TiDB Serverless FAQ
Is Convex or TiDB Serverless free?+
Convex has a free plan and paid plans. TiDB Serverless has a free plan (TiDB Cloud Starter) and paid plans.
Is Convex or TiDB Serverless open source?+
Yes, both are open source: Convex (get-convex/convex-backend on GitHub) and TiDB Serverless (pingcap/tidb on GitHub, Apache-2.0 license).
Do Convex and TiDB Serverless integrate with the same tools?+
Their integration lists don't overlap: Convex lists TypeScript, Node.js, Stripe, Twilio and 4 more; TiDB Serverless lists MySQL, AWS, Google Cloud, Azure and 5 more.
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