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headscale vs tidb

headscale and tidb share 5 technologies: gorm.io/gorm, golang.org/x/oauth2, Prometheus, github.com/prometheus/common, and go.uber.org/zap. Both are written in Go.

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What they share and what sets them apart

juanfont

headscale

An open source, self-hosted implementation of the Tailscale control server

Go45.4kRead on November 6, 2026, at commit 0bdc332What is headscale built with?

Only in headscale

  • chi
  • HashiCorp
  • Postgres
  • github.com/glebarez/sqlite
  • SQLite
  • github.com/coreos/go-oidc/v3
  • github.com/tailscale/hujson
  • github.com/rs/zerolog
  • Docker
  • github.com/libdns/cloudflare

In common

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.

Go40.7kRead on November 6, 2026, at commit a5a597dWhat is tidb built with?

Only in tidb

  • net/http
  • Gorilla
  • s3
  • TiDB
  • etcd
  • MySQL
  • github.com/cockroachdb/pebble
  • go.etcd.io/etcd/api/v3
  • go.etcd.io/etcd/server/v3
  • github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/feature/s3/manager
  • Dgraph
  • github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-go/sdk/storage/azblob
  • github.com/jellydator/ttlcache/v3
  • go.etcd.io/etcd/client/pkg/v3
  • Google
  • github.com/cheggaaa/pb/v3
  • github.com/jedib0t/go-pretty/v6
  • github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/credentials
  • github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-go/sdk/azidentity
  • github.com/go-ldap/ldap/v3
  • openai-go
  • go.opencensus.io
  • github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2
  • github.com/prometheus/client_model
  • github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/config
  • github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/service/cloudwatch
  • github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/service/ec2
  • github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/service/sts
  • github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-go/sdk/azcore
  • github.com/grafana/pyroscope-go
  • github.com/prometheus/prometheus
  • github.com/tencentcloud/tencentcloud-sdk-go/tencentcloud/common

Side by side

SizeLines written by people and agents, without generated ones; code files, without tests.
headscale222,641 lines written172 code files
tidb1,752,108 lines written1,549 code files
Who writes itA commit counts as AI's when it carries its signature: a Co-Authored-By line, its author name or the merge of its branch.
headscale0.3% of its commits signed by AIWith Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, and CodeRabbit
tidb0% of its commits signed by AIWith GitHub Copilot
ActivityFrom GitHub and its history, on the day SeeRepo read it.
headscaleLast push November 5, 20264,364 commits45,413 stars
tidbLast push November 6, 202627,911 commits40,711 stars
TestsThe files that test the code, and the share of code files a test imports.
headscale257 test files72.1% of its code files have a test that imports them
tidb2,905 test files90.3% of its code files have a test that imports them

Frequently asked questions

Which is bigger, headscale or tidb?
tidb, with 1,752,108 lines written; headscale has 222,641.

The proof: pingcap/tidb's code at commit a5a597d

Which has more GitHub stars, headscale or tidb?
headscale, with 45,413 stars; tidb has 40,711.

The proof: juanfont/headscale on GitHub

Which has more tests, headscale or tidb?
tidb, with 2,905 test files; headscale has 257.

The proof: pingcap/tidb's code at commit a5a597d

Which was updated more recently, headscale or tidb?
tidb: its last push was on November 6, 2026, and headscale's on November 5, 2026.

The proof: pingcap/tidb's commits on GitHub

Which has more commits signed by AI, headscale or tidb?
headscale: an AI signed 0.3% of its commits, with Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, and CodeRabbit.

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