Oracle Database as a Service vs TiDB Cloud comparison

Oracle and PingCAP are both solutions in the Database as a Service (DBaaS) category. Oracle is ranked #7 with an average rating of 8.3, while PingCAP is ranked #16 with an average rating of 8.0. Oracle holds a 7.1% mindshare in DS, compared to PingCAP’s 0.9% mindshare. Additionally, 97% of Oracle users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of PingCAP users who would recommend it.

Oracle Database as a Service

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97% willing to recommend

TiDB Cloud

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78 Comparison Views

100% willing to recommend

Oracle Database as a Service

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between Oracle Database as a Service and TiDB Cloud based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Database as a Service (DBaaS) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.

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Categories and Ranking

Oracle Database as a Service

Ranking in Database as a Service (DBaaS)

7th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

TiDB Cloud

Ranking in Database as a Service (DBaaS)

16th

Average Rating

8.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the Database as a Service (DBaaS) category, the mindshare of Oracle Database as a Service is 7.1%, down from 9.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of TiDB Cloud is 0.9%. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Database as a Service (DBaaS) Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Oracle Database as a Service	7.1%
TiDB Cloud	0.9%
Other	92.0%

Database as a Service (DBaaS)

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Sadik Iqbal

Associate at Eict ltd.

Offers robust security and resilience, but high pricing impacts accessibility

Initially, I walked through Teradata and not Oracle Database. Currently, I am doing a job for an organization that uses Postgres Database and offers a cloud solution. I work in technology advocacy for partners. Cloud solutions are our focus The encryption level, resilience, and secure features…

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Zaid Shaikh

Software Engineer at Hinge Health, Inc.

Helps to collect and analyze metrics and is useful for monitoring user engagement

If you are using a product managed by a cloud provider, such as AWS or Google Cloud, you benefit from various management tools. For instance, AWS offers CloudWatch for tracking metrics, while Google Cloud provides Time Series Insights. These tools are managed by the cloud providers. As an end user, you primarily need to pay for the service, and the cloud provider handles most of the management tasks. If you choose to use open-source tools like Prometheus, you will need to manage them yourself. It's a trade-off between convenience and cost. Opting for a managed service means you pay more but have less management overhead. On the other hand, using open-source solutions can reduce costs but requires you to handle the entire management of the infrastructure and database, such as ensuring uptime and provisioning resources. TiDB Cloud offers a reliable, managed solution that ensures availability and performance without the hassle of self-management.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"We have the ability to build several solutions to according to the requirements of our users."

"I will rate this solution a nine out of ten. We have been using this solution for the past ten years. We will continue the partnership. I do not expect to see any further integration of the tool with our software. I will recommend this tool to those with a large database."

"The functionalities and capabilities that I prefer the most in Oracle Database as a Service are the database replication function for high availability, which is what we are using."

"The product's implementation was pretty straightforward."

"Oracle Database as a Service is a scalable and robust solution."

"In terms of structured databases, I support SQL-based databases. SQL has its place, but not for plannable structure and transactional databases. At the same time, Oracle is very much optimized."

"The most valuable feature is the integration into other Oracle applications."

"One of the key features is Oracle Database as a Service. We chose to implement it as a service, which provides good performance, for example. Flexibility and other features let us implement database research with the SQL team range of features also."

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"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 selections are fast, and it handles collections and solutions well. Vertical and horizontal scaling are also good features."

Cons

"It would be better if we could have a little bit of automation or a chance for autoscaling with Oracle Database as a Service."

"The tool needs to improve its pricing and stability."

"Some of the technical features could be improved. They have a problem with some of the object types. I think this is one of the issues which is needed to be improved."

"The solution's pricing could be less expensive."

"One of the things that I have noticed is that there are some services that will give you a hard time during implementation if you are looking at the documentation of Oracle. Sometimes the documentation information is quite limited. It's an aspect of the solution they could improve."

"Oracle Database as a Service could improve the performance when monitoring."

"They should add more integration to the solution."

"The tool's AI part has shortcomings, making it an area where improvements are required."

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"There should be the ability to replicate auto-increment sequences from the production environment to the disaster recovery environment."

"If you are using a product managed by a cloud provider, such as AWS or Google Cloud, you benefit from various management tools."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price of Oracle Database as a Service is expensive."

"The price depends on the solution you choose: standard, enterprise, or high performance. For example, enterprise can start between 0.4 an hour up to 1,800. Additional fees also depends on what package you choose. Your feels will be different if you choose the standard, enterprise, high performance, or extreme package. You will pay in relation to what option you ask for. The price is very good if you compare it to other databases."

"In my opinion, it's not cheap, but every business can decide for itself."

"The solution is on the expensive side, but I recommend it because it's a good database."

"Oracle Database as a Service's pricing is good."

"The product is expensive."

"This is an expensive solution."

"Customers need to pay extra costs for the solution based on their scope and business."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

19%

Computer Software Company

10%

Manufacturing Company

Retailer

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Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	23
Midsize Enterprise	18
Large Enterprise	32

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Oracle Database as a Service?

It has significantly enhanced our application development process by introducing substantial time savings and streamlining routine tasks.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Oracle Database as a Service?

The setup cost is approximately four hours.

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What needs improvement with Oracle Database as a Service?

I see some negative sides that could be improved, and that is the licensing. The issue with licensing is the price and the way they license through partners.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for TiDB Cloud?

It's open source.

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What needs improvement with TiDB Cloud?

While using TiDB Cloud, I noticed things I don't like as a developer. For instance, it doesn't support functions and procedures, which Oracle and other databases do. This means that for table-to-ta...

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What is your primary use case for TiDB Cloud?

Silverlake Axis has a core banking and loan product called SILK, used by most banks in Southeast Asia, like in Malaysia, Singapore, and Thailand. The new product I'm working on, Mobius, is a replac...

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Also Known As

Oracle DBaaS, Oracle Database Cloud

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Overview

Oracle Database Cloud Service combines the power of Oracle Database, with the unique capabilities of the Oracle Cloud. The service provides a secure, automated data management platform that leverages on demand Oracle Cloud Infrastructure services via a simple web based user interface and RESTful API. Oracle Database Cloud Service provides elastic database services for development, test, and production environments of custom and packaged online transaction processing (OLTP), data warehousing, and mixed workload applications. It enables businesses to reap all Oracle Platform as a Service (PaaS) benefits including subscriptionbased, self-service access to reliable, scalable, and elastic cloud environments and accelerates time to value by simplifying the provisioning and administration of Oracle databases.

Oracle

Unleash the power of AI-generated SQL and Serverless HTAP in a single cloud-native database. Experience real-time analytics and elastic scaling, all in a fully managed service.
Elastically and transparently scale to hundreds of nodes for critical workloads without changing business logic.
Use what you know about SQL – maintain your relational model and global ACID transactions while coping with your hybrid workloads at ease.
Equipped with built-in high performance analytics engine to analyze operational data without using an ETL.

PingCAP

Sample Customers

Solution-Soft, DX Marketing, Suredell and Partners, Frontiers, SettleOurEstate.com, Demand Analysis Ltd, endlich IT & Projekt Service OHG

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