Alternatives to pingcap/tidb

TiDB is built for agentic workloads that grow unpredictably, with ACID guarantees and native support for transactions, analytics, and vector search. No data silos. No noisy neighbors. No infrastructure ceiling.

Source: pingcap/tidb · SPDX licence: Apache-2.0

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