Xata vs TigerData
A detailed comparison to help you choose between Xata and TigerData.
Quick Verdict
3.9/5
Xata
0 reviews
4.2/5
TigerData
0 reviews
TigerData is rated higher (4.2 vs 3.9). Xata is a managed Postgres platform built around copy-on-write branching and scale-to-zero compute, aimed at per-PR and per-agent database workflows. Vanilla PostgreSQL, open-source core (Apache 2.0), plus pgroll for zero-downtime migrations. The original search/spreadsheet product was retired during a 2024-2025 pivot. TigerData, from the creators of TimescaleDB, is a PostgreSQL cloud platform built for time-series and real-time analytics workloads at large scale, aimed at developers and enterprises.
Xata Postgres platform with copy-on-write branching and scale-to-zero | TigerData PostgreSQL-native time-series database for metrics, events, and analytics | |
|---|---|---|
| Overview | ||
| Rating | 3.9 (0 reviews) | 4.2 (0 reviews)✓ |
| Pricing model | pay-as-you-go | freemium |
| Starting price | From $9/mo✓ | From $30/mo |
| Best for | Teams that need an isolated Postgres per pull request or per AI agent run, with branching and scale-to-zero economics rather than per-database pricing | Teams building observability, IoT/telemetry, financial or real-time analytics platforms who want time-series performance inside standard PostgreSQL and can run the ops model of a managed Postgres service. |
| Specifications (entry plan) | ||
| CPU cores | 2 vCPU | — |
| RAM | 1 GB | — |
| Storage | — | — |
| Bandwidth | — | — |
| SLA uptime | — | 99.9% |
| Data-center count | — | 17 |
| €/vCPU/mo | €4.50 | — |
| €/GB RAM/mo | €9.00 | — |
| Features | ||
| IPv6 | ||
| DDoS protection | ||
| Automated backups | ✓ | |
| Snapshots | ||
| Managed option | ||
| Bare metal | ||
| GPU available | ||
| S3-compatible | ||
| Hourly billing | ||
| Free tier | ||
| Data-center locations | ||
| Regions | US East (N. Virginia), GCP; EU Central (Frankfurt), GCP | 13 AWS regions + 4 Azure regions across North America, Europe, Asia Pacific and South America |
| Tags | ||
| Tags | free tiermanaged optionbackups includedeu datacenterus datacenterapi access | free tiermanaged optionbackups includedeu datacenterus datacenterapi accessopen source |
| Visit Xata → | Visit TigerData → | |
Xata
Pros
- + Instant copy-on-write branching with no per-branch, per-developer or per-database fees
- + Scale-to-zero: idle branches bill $0 compute and wake in about a second
- + Vanilla PostgreSQL — standard extensions, drivers and tooling, no fork
- + Public pricing is unusually transparent, including a machine-readable pricing.md
- + Open-source core (Apache 2.0) plus genuinely useful standalone tools: pgroll, pgstream
Cons
- - Young platform behind a company that already retired one product its customers relied on
- - No published uptime SLA or backup policy on the public site
- - Self-serve limited to two regions (US East, EU Central); deep compliance and support tiers are BYOC sales conversations
- - Key pieces (Xatastor, multi-tenant control plane) remain proprietary despite the open-source push
TigerData
Pros
- + Full SQL and the PostgreSQL extension ecosystem — hypertables, continuous aggregates and 90%+ compression without a new query language
- + Published consumption pricing (compute from $30/month, storage $0.177-0.212/GB-month) with hourly metering and no instance-size lock-in
- + 17 regions across AWS and Azure with EU, US and APAC residency selectable at creation
- + Reliability productized: multi-AZ HA, PITR up to 14 days, backup retention to 180 days, cross-region restore, public SLA and status page
- + Open-source TimescaleDB escape hatch — self-hosting stays viable, which keeps pricing honest
Cons
- - Hourly compute meter bills full hours and forgotten scale-ups at the higher config are expensive
- - Serious reliability and security features (multi-node HA, 14-day PITR, SOC 2, private endpoints) gated behind Scale or Enterprise
- - PostgreSQL and time-series concepts (chunks, compression/retention policies) assumed — not a zero-ops database for non-database teams
- - Effective storage price assumes 5x compression; actual ratios are workload-dependent
- - Aiven-partnered legacy MST product carries a different (99.99%) SLA — easy to confuse with Tiger Cloud
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