Frequently Asked Questions About Tinybird
What is Tinybird Code and how does it enhance development?
Tinybird Code is an intelligent, context-aware IDE extension (VS Code & JetBrains) that understands your analytics stack end-to-end. It analyzes your SQL, data dependencies, and access patterns to surface actionable insights: suggesting denormalization for hot paths, warning about cardinality explosions, auto-generating test fixtures, and proposing security-aware WHERE clauses for row-level filtering. It doesn’t write your logic—it makes your logic faster, safer, and more maintainable.
What kind of data can I stream to Tinybird?
Any structured, semi-structured, or time-series data expressible as JSON—events, logs, metrics, transactions, sensor readings, clickstreams, or LLM output traces. Tinybird natively supports schema-on-read with type inference, optional schema enforcement, and automatic partitioning by time or key. Ingest via REST, Kafka, S3 sync, or PostgreSQL logical replication—no transformation required.
Is Tinybird suitable for production environments?
Yes—by design. Over 300+ production workloads run on Tinybird, including Tier-1 financial systems handling $2B+ daily transaction volume and global observability platforms serving 10K+ concurrent dashboard users. With 99.99% uptime SLA, multi-region replication, point-in-time recovery, and compliance certifications (SOC2 Type II, HIPAA, ISO 27001), Tinybird meets the reliability, security, and governance bar for regulated, high-stakes environments.
How does Tinybird handle data storage and querying?
Tinybird runs on a proprietary, hardened layer atop ClickHouse®—featuring automatic tiered storage (hot SSD + cold object storage), intelligent query caching, pre-aggregated materialized views, and columnar encoding tuned for high-selectivity analytical workloads. You write SQL; Tinybird handles indexing strategy, compression selection, memory allocation, and concurrency control—so every query hits sub-second latency, regardless of data growth or concurrent load.
What are the pricing options for Tinybird?
Tinybird offers transparent, usage-based pricing—no hidden fees or minimum commitments. Plans start with a generous free tier (10M rows/month, 1GB storage, unlimited APIs), scale to Pro (for growing teams with advanced security and SLAs), and extend to Enterprise (custom capacity, dedicated clusters, priority support, and private deployment options). All plans include full access to AI features, streaming ingestion, and vector search. Detailed plans and real-time cost estimators are available on the Tinybird pricing page.