Building for Scale: The Blueprint for Distributed SQL Databases That Meet Modern Demands
Welcome to the Distributed SQL Era: What AWS’s Entry Means for You Modern applications are pushing the boundaries of what databases can handle. As businesses expand, they face unprecedented demands—hyper-scaling applications, global deployments, and real-time responsiveness—that traditional databases simply weren’t designed to meet. Distributed SQL databases have emerged as a blueprint for success, but not […]
How TiDB Dedicated Achieves Zero Downtime During Kubernetes Node Upgrades
A key aspect of Database as a Service (DBaaS) solutions is ensuring zero downtime, especially during system upgrades. Zero downtime is paramount as it guarantees uninterrupted service, a critical requirement for mission-critical applications running on the database. TiDB Dedicated is PingCAP’s fully-managed cloud Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) platform on AWS and GCP. This DBaaS uses managed Kubernetes […]
TiDB Auto Scaling: Why Distributed SQL for Cloud-Native Applications
The ability to scale quickly and efficiently in response to varying workloads is a pivotal feature for any database system. Auto scaling is a capability that allows databases to adjust their computational resources automatically. Benefits include improved performance during sudden workload surges and cost-effectiveness during periods of lower demand. Developed by PingCAP, TiDB is an […]
Why We Must Make Data as Accessible as Water or Electricity
In this post, we’ll explore how by leveraging open-source databases, data integration, and modern data management tools, organizations can use and consume data like it’s a utility.
Enter NewSQL, the Next-Generation Database
Discover why modern businesses are adopting next-generation databases. Learn how NewSQL databases such as TiDB redefine the future of data management.
My Journey from Traditional Monolithic Architecture to Distributed SQL
As a database veteran, I found traditional monolithic databases (such as Oracle) to have bottlenecks for mission critical applications in the cloud, which called for a next generation cloud native database to solve these challenges. This is what excited me about joining the PingCAP team, where we took the core concept of Distributed SQL’s multi-node auto-sharding architecture and extended it to allow for greater flexibility and functionality beyond Spanner and other Distributed SQL databases. It is also open source and has helped to change the landscape for developers.
TiDB on JD Cloud: A Cloud-native Distributed Database Service
PingCAP teams up with JD Cloud to provide Cloud-TiDB service on the JD Cloud platform.
TiDB on KubeSphere: Release a Cloud-Native Distributed Database to the KubeSphere App Store
This article walks you through how to deploy TiDB on KubeSphere and release TiDB to the App Store to make it available to other tenants.
TiDB on KubeSphere: Run a Cloud-Native Distributed Database on a Hybrid-Cloud Kubernetes Platform
A site reliability engineer gives a step-by-step tutorial on how to deploy TiDB on KubeSphere, an open-source, distributed GUI operating system with Kubernetes as its kernel.
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.
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.
TiDB 4.0 Preview: An Easier-to-Use, Production-Ready HTAP Database
Get a preview of TiDB 4.0. Our landmark release has production-ready HTAP capabilities, continues to solve issues for large-scale, distributed SQL databases, and is easier to use than ever.