Customer Story

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

The FinTech industry is innovating at record speed. From embedded payments and AI-driven fraud detection to real-time credit scoring and risk analytics, financial services are becoming faster, smarter, and more personalized. But behind the scenes, many platforms are still powered by legacy databases and architectures built for a different era. Traditional systems are struggling to […]

In today’s fast-paced business world, quick, data-driven decisions are crucial. However, for many, data analysis can seem daunting, especially without the technical skills to navigate complex databases. That’s where TiInsight shines: an intuitive and innovative platform built with the Chat2Query OpenAPI, designed to allow you to gain clear, actionable insights from complex data. An open-source […]

Financial services are rapidly transforming to adopt AI, digitize operations, and enhance customer experiences, yet many banks struggle with outdated legacy data systems that limit AI adoption.  At the Silverlake Axis Customer Connect Conference (SACCC), held from October 17 to 20, 2024, in Da Nang, Vietnam, industry leaders focused on modernizing banking infrastructure. C-suite executives, […]

Author: Xiaolei Dai, Database lead at Zhihu Efficient and reliable data migration is crucial for large-scale online services. Zhihu, one of China’s largest knowledge-sharing platforms, recently undertook the complex task of online migration for dozens of TiDB databases, totaling petabytes (PB) of data. This blog post, based on the expertise of Zhihu’s database lead, Dai […]

Discover how Kissflow moved from a traditional SQL-based system to a unified data strategy leveraging Hybrid HTAP.

According to the Forbes article, there are more than two million independent podcasts today. So, it was only natural to ask ourselves: Does it make sense to start yet another podcast? Some of the reasons why we personally like podcasts are that they’re easy to consume, have a more casual format, and there’s a sense […]