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title: Compare the features in TigerData products
excerpt: Get an overview of features available in Tiger Cloud vs self-hosted TimescaleDB
products: [cloud, self_hosted]
keywords: [TimescaleDB, Tiger Cloud]
---

# Compare the features in $COMPANY products

The following table compares the features available in $CLOUD_LONG and self-hosted $TDB_COMMUNITY.

| Feature | $CLOUD_LONG on AWS | $CLOUD_LONG on Azure | $TIMESCALE_DB |
|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|-------------------------------------------|----------------------|------------------------------|
| **Best-in-сlass $PG performance** | | | |
| Automatic partitioning via hypertables for efficient indexes and faster ingest | <span style="color:green">✓</span> | <span style="color:green">✓</span> | <span style="color:green">✓</span> |
| Continuous aggregates | <span style="color:green">✓</span> | <span style="color:green">✓</span> | <span style="color:green">✓</span> |
| Time/partition-oriented constraint exclusion for faster queries | <span style="color:green">✓</span> | <span style="color:green">✓</span> | <span style="color:green">✓</span> |
| Skip scans, ordered appends, custom optimizations for faster `LIMIT` and `DISTINCT` queries | <span style="color:green">✓</span> | <span style="color:green">✓</span> | <span style="color:green">✓</span> |
| Columnar storage for accelerated scans | <span style="color:green">✓</span> | <span style="color:green">✓</span> | <span style="color:green">✓</span> |
| Vectorized query execution (SIMD) | <span style="color:green">✓</span> | <span style="color:green">✓</span> | <span style="color:green">✓</span> |
| Specialized vector indexes for AI applications | <span style="color:green">✓</span> | <span style="color:green">✓</span> | <span style="color:green">✓</span> |
| $PG_CONNECTOR_CAP | <span style="color:green">✓</span> | <span style="color:green">✓</span> | Manual |
| $S3_CONNECTOR_CAP | <span style="color:green">✓</span> | <span style="color:red">✗</span> | <span style="color:red">✗</span> |
| Source Apache Kafka connector | <span style="color:green">✓</span> | <span style="color:red">✗</span> | <span style="color:red">✗</span> |
| $LAKE_LONG destination connector from $CLOUD_LONG to Iceberg-backed S3 Tables | <span style="color:green">✓</span> | <span style="color:red">✗</span> | <span style="color:red">✗</span> |
| In-Console CSV, Parquet, and text file imports | <span style="color:green">✓</span> | <span style="color:red">✗</span> | <span style="color:red">✗</span> |
| **Flexible analysis with full SQL** | | | |
| Complete $PG ecosystem including all $PG features, connectors, and third-party drivers | <span style="color:green">✓</span> | <span style="color:green">✓</span> | <span style="color:green">✓</span> |
| Cross-table JOINs for time-series and events tables with relational tables | <span style="color:green">✓</span> | <span style="color:green">✓</span> | <span style="color:green">✓</span> |
| Rich timestamp and timezone support | <span style="color:green">✓</span> | <span style="color:green">✓</span> | <span style="color:green">✓</span> |
| Flexible time-bucketing for time-oriented analysis | <span style="color:green">✓</span> | <span style="color:green">✓</span> | <span style="color:green">✓</span> |
| Advanced hyperfunctions including interpolation, approximation, and visualization functions | <span style="color:green">✓</span> | <span style="color:green">✓</span> | <span style="color:green">✓</span> |
| Geospatial and vector data types | <span style="color:green">✓</span> | <span style="color:green">✓</span> | <span style="color:green">✓</span> |
| **Automated data management** | | | |
| Native compression (up to 98% storage savings) | <span style="color:green">✓</span> | <span style="color:green">✓</span> | <span style="color:green">✓</span> |
| Columnar storage format with fast scans | <span style="color:green">✓</span> | <span style="color:green">✓</span> | <span style="color:green">✓</span> |
| Data retention policies | <span style="color:green">✓</span> | <span style="color:green">✓</span> | <span style="color:green">✓</span> |
| Data tiering with automated policies | <span style="color:green">✓</span> | <span style="color:red">✗</span> | <span style="color:red">✗</span> |
| Data reordering for efficient disk scans | <span style="color:green">✓</span> | <span style="color:green">✓</span> | <span style="color:green">✓</span> |
| Data downsampling for efficient historical analysis | <span style="color:green">✓</span> | <span style="color:green">✓</span> | <span style="color:green">✓</span> |
| Background job scheduler and user-defined jobs | <span style="color:green">✓</span> | <span style="color:green">✓</span> | <span style="color:green">✓</span> |
| **Enterprise scalability** | | | |
| Disaggregated compute and storage | <span style="color:green">✓</span> | <span style="color:green">✓</span> | Manual |
| Dynamic compute resizing | <span style="color:green">✓</span> | <span style="color:green">✓</span> | <span style="color:red">✗</span> |
| Dynamic disk storage with usage-based pricing | <span style="color:green">✓</span> | <span style="color:green">✓</span> | <span style="color:red">✗</span> |
| Dynamic I/O provisioning for high-read/ high-write performance | <span style="color:green">✓</span> | <span style="color:green">✓</span> | Manual |
| Low-cost storage with infinite capacity on S3 | <span style="color:green">✓</span> | <span style="color:red">✗</span> | <span style="color:red">✗</span> |
| Transparent queries across high-performance and low-cost tiers | <span style="color:green">✓</span> | <span style="color:red">✗</span> | <span style="color:red">✗</span> |
| Read replicas with load balancing for seamless read scaling | <span style="color:green">✓</span> | <span style="color:green">✓</span> | Manual |
| Connection pooling for connection scaling | <span style="color:green">✓</span> | <span style="color:green">✓</span> | Manual |
| Automated resource-aware parameter tuning | <span style="color:green">✓</span> | <span style="color:green">✓</span> | <span style="color:red">✗</span> |
| Terraform for infrastructure-as-code control | <span style="color:green">✓</span> | <span style="color:green">✓</span> | <span style="color:red">✗</span> |
| **High availability and reliability** | | | |
| Multi-AZ deployments for high availability | <span style="color:green">✓</span> | <span style="color:green">✓</span> | Manual |
| Continuous incremental backup and automated restore | <span style="color:green">✓</span> | <span style="color:green">✓</span> | Manual |
| Cross-region backup | <span style="color:green">✓</span> | <span style="color:red">✗</span> | <span style="color:red">✗</span> |
| Point-in-time recovery and branching | <span style="color:green">✓</span> | <span style="color:green">✓</span> | Manual |
| Regular database and disk snapshots to enable fast restore | <span style="color:green">✓</span> | <span style="color:green">✓</span> | <span style="color:red">✗</span> |
| Rapid recovery for all services by fast database restart and remote disk remount | <span style="color:green">✓</span> | <span style="color:green">✓</span> | <span style="color:red">✗</span> |
| Memory guard protections to avoid database out-of-memory crashes | <span style="color:green">✓</span> | <span style="color:green">✓</span> | <span style="color:red">✗</span> |
| Decoupled control/data planes for greater resilience | <span style="color:green">✓</span> | <span style="color:green">✓</span> | <span style="color:red">✗</span> |
| Commercial SLAs | <span style="color:green">✓</span> | <span style="color:green">✓</span> | <span style="color:red">✗</span> |
| **Automated upgrades and software patching** | | | |
| Automated upgrades during maintenance windows | <span style="color:green">✓</span> | <span style="color:green">✓</span> | <span style="color:red">✗</span> |
| Phased, zero-downtime $TIMESCALE_DB and $PG minor upgrades | <span style="color:green">✓</span> | <span style="color:green">✓</span> | <span style="color:red">✗</span> |
| $PG major version upgrades with forking workflow and disk snapshots to minimize downtime | <span style="color:green">✓</span> | <span style="color:green">✓</span> | <span style="color:red">✗</span> |
| HA-replica-aware coordinated upgrades | <span style="color:green">✓</span> | <span style="color:green">✓</span> | <span style="color:red">✗</span> |
| Fleet-wide version and stability monitoring with staged roll-out/roll-back upgrades | <span style="color:green">✓</span> | <span style="color:green">✓</span> | <span style="color:red">✗</span> |
| **Security and compliance** | | | |
| SOC 2 Type 2, GDPR, HIPAA certified compliance | <span style="color:green">✓</span> | <span style="color:green">✓</span> | <span style="color:red">✗</span> |
| Data encryption at rest (both disk and backup) | <span style="color:green">✓</span> | <span style="color:green">✓</span> | Manual |
| Data encryption in transit | <span style="color:green">✓</span> | <span style="color:green">✓</span> | Manual |
| Database SSL with fully verifiable certificate chains | <span style="color:green">✓</span> | <span style="color:green">✓</span> | <span style="color:red">✗</span> |
| Control plane role-based access control | <span style="color:green">✓</span> | <span style="color:green">✓</span> | <span style="color:red">✗</span> |
| Database role-based access control | <span style="color:green">✓</span> | <span style="color:green">✓</span> | <span style="color:green">✓</span> |
| Multi-factor authentication | <span style="color:green">✓</span> | <span style="color:green">✓</span> | <span style="color:red">✗</span> |
| Corporate SSO and SAML | <span style="color:green">✓</span> | <span style="color:green">✓</span> | <span style="color:red">✗</span> |
| VPC peering | <span style="color:green">✓</span> | <span style="color:red">✗</span> | <span style="color:red">✗</span> |
| AWS Transit Gateway | <span style="color:green">✓</span> | <span style="color:red">✗</span> | <span style="color:red">✗</span> |
| Layered database "privilege escalation" protections | <span style="color:green">✓</span> | <span style="color:green">✓</span> | <span style="color:red">✗</span> |
| Secure SDLC practices and vulnerability scanning, third-party pen testing | <span style="color:green">✓</span> | <span style="color:green">✓</span> | <span style="color:red">✗</span> |
| **Deep observability** | | | |
| Operational database visibility to understand performance, uncover regressions, optimize performance | <span style="color:green">✓</span> | <span style="color:green">✓</span> | <span style="color:red">✗</span> |
| Automated query analysis and statistics | <span style="color:green">✓</span> | <span style="color:green">✓</span> | <span style="color:red">✗</span> |
| Per-query drill-downs into execution times, row results, plans, memory buffer management, cache performance | <span style="color:green">✓</span> | <span style="color:green">✓</span> | <span style="color:red">✗</span> |
| In-Console metric visualization and system logs | <span style="color:green">✓</span> | <span style="color:green">✓</span> | <span style="color:red">✗</span> |
| Native metrics and log exporters to AWS CloudWatch, Prometheus, DataDog | <span style="color:green">✓</span> | <span style="color:red">✗</span> | <span style="color:red">✗</span> |
| Connection monitoring | <span style="color:green">✓</span> | <span style="color:green">✓</span> | Manual |
| Connection management | <span style="color:green">✓</span> | <span style="color:green">✓</span> | Manual |
| **Production-grade support and operations** | | | |
| 24/7 follow-the-sun support with global support team across APAC, EMEA, and Americas | <span style="color:green">✓</span> | <span style="color:green">✓</span> | [Contact sales](mailto:sales@tigerdata.com) |
| Production support (severity 1) | <span style="color:green">✓</span> | <span style="color:green">✓</span> | [Contact sales](mailto:sales@tigerdata.com) |
| Architectural reviews, data modeling, and query optimization and assistance, feature testing, and migration support | <span style="color:green">✓</span> | <span style="color:green">✓</span> | [Contact sales](mailto:sales@tigerdata.com) |
| 24/7 operational monitoring and control | <span style="color:green">✓</span> | <span style="color:green">✓</span> | [Contact sales](mailto:sales@tigerdata.com) |
| 98%+ customer satisfaction (CSAT scores) | <span style="color:green">✓</span> | <span style="color:green">✓</span> | [Contact sales](mailto:sales@tigerdata.com) |

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