Kickstart Your Distributed SQL Journey: Setting Up TiDB Locally with TiUP Playground
TiDB is a powerful, open-source distributed SQL database built for handling both transactional and analytical workloads. With its MySQL compatibility, horizontal scalability, and real-time HTAP capabilities, it’s designed for modern, cloud-native architectures. In this distributed SQL tutorial, we’ll walk you through setting up a local TiDB cluster for development and testing in just a few […]
Everything You Need to Know about Function Pushdown from TiDB to TiFlash
In this post, you’ll learn how to push down functions from TiDB to TiFlash and how to contribute to TiFlash.
The Long Expedition toward Making a Real-Time HTAP Database
This post introduces the backstage stories of TiDB and its HTAP capability.
Announcing TiFlash as an Open Source Project
We are pleased to announce that TiFlash, TiDB’s analytics engine, is now open sourced under Apache 2.0.
How We Build an HTAP Database That Simplifies Your Data Platform
This post talks about why HTAP matters in a database platform, how TiDB implements HTAP, and how you can apply TiDB in different scenarios.
How TiDB’s HTAP Makes Truly Hybrid Workloads Possible
This post introduces the design details of the HTAP architecture of TiDB, including the real-time updatable columnar engine, the multi-Raft replication strategy, and smart selection.
Delivering Real-time Analytics and True HTAP by Combining Columnstore and Rowstore
TiDB is an HTAP database that targets both OLTP and OLAP scenarios. TiFlash is its extended analytical engine. This post introduces how TiFlash fuels TiDB to become a true HTAP database that lets users perform real-time analytics.