Scaling TiDB to 1 Million QPS

Overview

Flipkart, India’s largest e-commerce company, serves over 400M registered users with 10M+ daily page visits. Numerous applications rely on MySQL as their datastore, facing increased QPS demands due to growing user traffic.

To tackle scalability and reliability challenges, Flipkart adopted TiDB database in early 2021, achieving moderate throughput. Today, the company aims to demonstrate TiDB’s potential as a hot SQL data store for use cases with very high QPS (1 million) and low latency (less than 10ms) requirements.

In this session, Flipkart Lead SRE Sachin Japate explores how TiDB database addresses Flipkart’s high throughput application requirements, the impressive results achieved, challenges faced, and key learnings.