How Pinterest Modernized Its Data Infrastructure with TiDB

Overview

Pinterest is one of the largest HBase users with over 50 production clusters and 9,000 virtual machines. However, they wanted a new solution as scalable as NoSQL, but with the ability to handle transactions for online services and provide analytics into business metrics.

In this video, Ankita Wagh, Senior Software Engineer at Pinterest, explains why Pinterest chose TiDB database — the world’s most advanced, open-source, distributed SQL database with built-in HTAP capabilities to handle its HBase workloads.