An open-source, cloud-native, distributed SQL database for elastic scale and real-time analytics
Why TiDB?
Open-source under Apache 2, No Lock-in
Supported by a wealth of open-source data migration tools in the ecosystem, TiDB gives you the freedom to choose your own vendor and avoid lock-in.
Scale-out Relational Database
Purposely built to deliver SQL at scale, TiDB eliminates the scaling problems of traditional relational databases without intrusion to your application.
Real-time Analytics
HTAP database platform that enables real-time situation awareness and decision making on live transactional data and eliminates friction between IT and business goals.
The Benefits of Distributed SQL
SQL at Scale
TiDB is ACID-compliant and strongly consistent. You can use TiDB as a scale-out MySQL database with familiar SQL syntaxes and ecosystem tools.
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Elastic Scalability
TiDB automatically shards your data so you don’t have to do it manually. You can simply add new nodes to scale horizontally and elastically to meet your business growth.
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Simplicity and Safety
TiDB simplifies the ETL process and automatically recovers from errors. You can focus on your business and stop worrying about your database infrastructure.
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Better Insights with Timely Data
TiDB supports real-time analytics. By breaking the wall between OLTP and OLAP, it makes your applications adaptive to transient business opportunities.
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Use Cases
OLTP
Horizontally-scalable Relational Database
Scalable online transactional processing
- 400+ TB of transactional production data in a single TiDB cluster
- Trillions of rows in a single distributed table
HTAP
Real-time Analytics
Hybrid Transactional and Analytical Processing
- Millisecond response times over trillions of rows
- No wall between transactional data and analytical reporting
Learn More in Engineering Blogs
Five Principles that Guide TiDB and PingCAP (Part II)
By Max Liu
PingCAP's CEO talks about the philosophy of TiDB's evolution, focusing on two more principles.
Five Principles that Guide TiDB and PingCAP (Part I)
By Max Liu
PingCAP's CEO talks about the philosophy of TiDB's evolution and how PingCAP built TiDB in the past five years.
Announcing the TiDB Incubator Program
By PingCAP
Today, we are excited to introduce the TiDB Incubator Program, a program designed to ensure that new projects in the TiDB ecosystem can obtain resources and help from the community towards their desired maturity level.
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