F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition vs TiDB Cloud comparison

F5 and PingCAP are both solutions in the AWS Marketplace category. F5 is ranked #12 with an average rating of 8.7, while PingCAP is ranked #30 with an average rating of 8.0. F5 holds a 0.5% mindshare in AWSM, compared to PingCAP’s 0.1% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of F5 users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of PingCAP users who would recommend it.

F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition and TiDB Cloud based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two AWS Marketplace solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.

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F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition vs. TiDB Cloud

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Categories and Ranking

F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition

Ranking in AWS Marketplace

12th

Average Rating

8.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

TiDB Cloud

Ranking in AWS Marketplace

30th

Average Rating

8.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2025, in the AWS Marketplace category, the mindshare of F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition is 0.5%, down from 2.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of TiDB Cloud is 0.1%, down from 0.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Kodanda Ramji C.S

Manager | Engineering | Cloud Managed Services at Sify Technologies

Offers easy-to-use integration capabilities

It is a scalable solution. In F5 BIG-IP i5800, if you have assigned a single CPU and memory for a virtual instance and if it increases, you can just add a CPU and memory to the existing vCMP. What you have to do is spin one more virtual instance with the two CPUs and double the memory, like eight GB memory, for example. You can't just increase the existing VirtualBox. You have to create another VirtualBox parallel, download the configurations, and import it. My company provides one banking application to around ten customers. My company has around seven virtual instances and seven applications, each application having around 70 customers running on one F5 BIG-IP i5800. My company has created seven VirtualBox.

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Zaid Shaikh

Software Engineer at Hinge Health

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

"I have a specific issue with the network interface connector, the NIC. We're limited to a maximum of two NICs in a virtualized environment. It's a limitation of the tool."

"The features that I like include LTM and Global Traffic Manager (GTM)."

"The integration capabilities of the product are easy to use, and there is no complexity involved in it."

"It has DoS layer 7 protection, which not many vendors have."

"It's easy to use, and they have good support."

"The tool's investment is less than a physical device."

"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

"F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition is a heavy system that needs a lot of CPU, memory, and hard disk."

"On-the-go upgrades are an option that the tool currently lacks, making it an area where improvements are required."

"I have a specific issue with the network interface connector, the NIC. We're limited to a maximum of two NICs in a virtualized environment. It's a limitation of the tool."

"The tool has limitations with respect to code and RAM."

"It's expensive and could be cheaper."

"BIG-IP could improve in supporting microservices, for example, in Docker and Kubernetes environments."

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

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

Pricing and Cost Advice

"I would rate the pricing a three out of ten, with ten being expensive."

"My company's customers need to make payments for the licensing charges attached to the product. It is an expensive product."

"F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition is an expensive solution, but it's worth the price."

"The pricing is standard."

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition?

The integration capabilities of the product are easy to use, and there is no complexity involved in it.

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What needs improvement with F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition?

It's expensive and could be cheaper. At the moment, I can't think of anything to improve.

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What advice do you have for others considering F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition?

The solution is very good. I would rate the solution maybe ten out of ten.

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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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Overview

When you need to move faster than hardware allows, BIG-IP Virtual Editions (VEs) deliver the application services you need in a more agile and flexible form factor. Get the scalability, security, and automatability BIG-IP products are known for—all in software designed for use in single-, hybrid-, or multi-cloud architectures.

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.

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