TiDB 5.1: Easily Build Your Mission-Critical Applications at Any Scale
TiDB 5.1 is released. It features more stable latency, optimized MPP performance and stability, and more convenient maintenance. Developers and DBAs can more easily build mission-critical applications at any scale.
TiDB 5.0: A One-Stop HTAP Database Solution
TiDB 5.0 features a comprehensive HTAP solution enhanced by an MPP analytical query engine. This article introduces the new TiDB 5.0 HTAP architecture and how TiDB 5.0 serves various transactional & analytical hybrid workload scenarios.
Empower Your Business with Big Data + Real-time Analytics in TiDB
Big data is a growing need for ambitious companies. Learn the usage, cost, and technology selection of real-time big data analytics and how TiDB prevails over other solutions.
Using TiDB in Mission Critical Scenarios of the Financial Industry (Part I)
In this post, you'll learn how the financial industry uses databases in their mission critical systems and how TiDB-based solutions help them address the pain points of traditional RDBMS.
TiDB on Arm-based Kubernetes Cluster Achieves Up to 25% Better Price-Performance Ratio than x86
Running TiDB on EKS clusters with Graviton processors offers up to 25% better price-performance ratio compared to an x86-based cluster. This article discusses the benchmark tests we ran.
Best Practices for TiDB on AWS Cloud
This article illustrates the best practices of running TiDB on AWS, including how to choose the suitable cloud storage and properly configure the system.
Choosing the Right Enterprise-Grade Disaster Recovery Solution for the Financial Industry
Financial companies have stringent requirements for high availability and disaster recovery, which many databases cannot meet. This article describes how TiDB addresses both these issues with a range of options that make it an excellent choice for the industry.
Metrics Relation Graph Helps DBAs Quickly Locate Performance Problems in TiDB
TiDB v4.0.7 introduced a new feature: the metrics relation graph. It helps users clearly see the relationship between different performance metrics in a database cluster and thus quickly locate the root causes of performance problems.
TiDB Operator: Your TiDB Operations Expert in Kubernetes
This post analyzes the pros and cons of running databases in Kubernetes. It also introduces TiDB Operator, a tool for managing TiDB clusters in Kubernetes, and describes how large companies are using it in their production environments as well as their best practices.
How to Migrate Data from Amazon Aurora MySQL to TiDB Cloud
This post introduces how to smoothly migrate data from Amazon Aurora MySQL to TiDB Cloud using Dumpling and TiDB Lightning.
What’s New and Improved in TiDB Docs
Along with the rapid releases of TiDB products and projects, we also constantly update and improve our TiDB documentation. This post covers recent big changes, new content, and improvements in TiDB documentation.
TiDB 4.0: An Elastic, Real-Time HTAP Database Ready for the Cloud
At TiDB DevCon 2020, Max Liu, CEO at PingCAP, gave a keynote speech. He believes that today's database should be more flexible, more real-time, and easier to use, and TiDB, an elastic, cloud-native, real-time HTAP database, is exactly that kind of database.