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In the vast landscape of databases, ensuring zero-downtime upgrades and operation continuity remains a challenge. Due to inherent design limitations, traditional databases often introduce significant downtime during upgrades – a challenge that can spell operational chaos for businesses reliant on real-time data access.  Enter TiDB, a cutting-edge distributed SQL database that offers a solution to […]

Data-intensive applications demand scalability, low latency, and resilience. However, traditional databases often struggle to handle both transactional consistency and fast in-memory caching at scale. But that’s where TiDB and DragonflyDB shine together: In this tutorial, we’ll walk through setting up a TiDB + Dragonfly stack, show how they complement each other, and build a hands-on […]

Data-intensive applications outgrow single-node MySQL long before product-market fit is “done.” Hot partitions, schema change windows, and manual sharding slow teams down. But TiDB solves this with a MySQL-compatible, distributed SQL architecture that scales storage and compute independently and keeps applications online during change. In this quick tutorial, we’ll spin up TiDB locally with TiUP […]

Transactions—especially distributed ACID transactions—are ubiquitous. Protocols around transactions are equally ubiquitous, even if we don’t immediately realize it. Take, for example, a common marriage ceremony. It’s essentially a two-phase commit (2PC) protocol. The officiant is the transaction coordinator (TC), and the couple getting married are the active participants. In the first phase, the TC asks […]

Recently, I’ve been meeting customers across industries including AIaaS, Web3, and FinTech. No matter where I go, the conversation always turns to one thing: AI. Everyone’s asking the same question: “How will AI transform our business, and how does TiDB embrace this change?” So, I started sharing what had been on my mind lately. “The era […]

Modern applications generate enormous amounts of event data with user actions, transactions, logs, and metrics all happening in real time. To handle this scale, many teams rely on Apache Kafka, a distributed messaging system that decouples applications from their data pipelines and ensures reliable, high-throughput data delivery. On the storage side, TiDB provides a distributed SQL database that […]

Database sharding is a data architecture strategy that increases database performance by splitting up data into chunks and then spreading these chunks “intelligently” across multiple database servers (or database instances). These chunks of data are called shards, while each shard contains a subset of our data. All shards represent the entire set of data, and […]

In the areas of data management and real-time analytics, Change Data Capture (CDC) has become an indispensable tool. CDC is a software operation that enables you to monitor and record changes in your source database. From there, you can subsequently apply those changes to your target database. These changes could be new records, updates, or […]

Ask any engineering team managing a modern application today, and you’ll hear the same frustrations: traffic spikes that can’t be predicted, autoscalers that react too slowly, and workloads that look nothing like they did yesterday. One hour you’re processing transactions, the next you’re serving analytical or vector queries — all in real time, all under […]

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 […]

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 […]