How ElasticRun Adopted TiDB to Seamlessly Scale Peak E-Commerce Workloads
In India’s dynamic e-commerce landscape, ElasticRun plays a pivotal role as the invisible infrastructure behind last-mile deliveries and deep rural distribution. The company’s ability to connect rural grocery stores to modern commerce hinges on technology and more specifically, a backend architecture that can keep up with relentless growth and fluctuating demand. But as their user […]
Delivering at Scale: How Ninja Van Powers Millions of Shipments with TiDB
Founded in 2014 in Singapore, Ninja Van is a leading last-mile logistics provider operating across six countries in Southeast Asia: Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Vietnam, and Thailand — with nationwide coverage in each market. Ninja Van’s platform handles logistics for top-tier e-commerce players such as Amazon and Lazada. Offering services that span from parcel […]
TiDB Cloud Changefeed Integration with StreamNative Cloud for Real-Time Streaming
At PingCAP, our mission with TiDB Cloud is to make data easier, faster, and more powerful for developers and enterprises. Today, we’re taking that vision one step further with a new capability: streaming real-time data changes directly from TiDB Cloud into the StreamNative Cloud ecosystem. This integration, powered by TiDB Cloud’s Changefeed feature, gives you […]
Unleashing TiDB Scalability: The Next Generation of DDL Execution
Schema changes at scale can be a nightmare for SaaS applications. Slow index creation, long-running schema modifications, and scalability limits can disrupt operations, making real-time database evolution nearly impossible. TiDB has been tackling these challenges head-on, continuously pushing the boundaries of distributed SQL and DDL execution. Last year, we boosted index creation speed by 10x, enabling […]
From Outages to Velocity: Designing a Resilient, Elastic Data Layer with Distributed SQL
Most companies suffer from a serious problem that limits their growth, and most don’t even know it. By the time they find out, it’s costing them millions in missed opportunities for product progress. It’s an infrastructure bottleneck — the root cause of most major issues with online applications. It causes downstream outages. It slows, and […]
3 Tips to Scale Multi-Tenant SaaS Data Without Pain
One of the most persistent challenges facing engineering leaders is how to design a scalable, secure, and cost-efficient multi-tenant SaaS architecture. While multi-tenancy enables shared infrastructure and rapid onboarding, it also introduces significant complexity, especially at scale. In a recent webinar Kathryn Sizemore, Principal Solutions Architect at TiDB, explored the realities of building scalable multi-tenant […]
Why TiDB SCaiLE 2025 is a Must-Attend Event
Mark your calendars for October 7–8, 2025! TiDB SCaiLE 2025 heads to Mountain View’s Computer History Museum, where the future of distributed SQL, cloud-native scale, and AI-ready infrastructure comes into sharp focus . Let’s walk through a few of the key reasons why you shouldn’t miss this event. Experience a High-Impact Hybrid Scale Strategy TiDB SCaiLE (formerly […]
Exploring TiDB Observability: A Journey Through Real-World Case Studies
Have you ever seen two nearly identical SQL statements, differing only in date parameters or function variations, return similar results but with wildly different performance, sometimes by factors of 10 or 100? In real-world scenarios, we typically run the `EXPLAIN` statement to examine changes in the execution plan. But what if the execution plan doesn’t […]
Why Legacy SQL Is a Scaling Time Bomb: How Distributed SQL Defuses Future Risks
Peak-moment failures are never polite. In 2015, Target’s website buckled on Cyber Monday while holiday carts sat idle. Delta canceled 1,300 flights when a single software outage rippled through critical systems. Analysts have shown that just 100 ms of extra latency trims roughly 1% of revenue, while Google observed a 20% traffic drop from a […]
5 Reasons Why Amazon Aurora Fails to Scale Large, Complex Workloads
As digital services become more intelligent, personalized, and data-intensive, the infrastructure supporting them must evolve as well. Today’s applications aren’t just storing data, they’re making real-time decisions on it, often across globally distributed environments with high user concurrency and strict uptime requirements. Amazon Aurora, a fully managed relational database from AWS, is a common choice […]
From Hypothesis to Validation: How User Research Shaped TiDB Cloud’s New Navigation
Designing intuitive navigation in a cloud database platform is no small task. TiDB Cloud offers powerful features, but as capabilities expand, so does the complexity of its interface. Users often work across multiple roles, organizations, and environments. If they can’t find what they need quickly, it slows them down and weakens their trust in the […]
Scaling Observability: Why TiDB Moved from Prometheus to VictoriaMetrics
From the outset, Prometheus has served as a go-to tool for real-time performance metric collection, storage, querying, and observability in TiDB. Additionally, TiDB supports offline diagnostics using TiDB Clinic, which allows for replaying collected metrics to investigate historical issues. Figure 1. How TiDB Clinic provides offline diagnostics. However, as deployments scaled, so did the challenges […]