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 […]
Write Latency, Solved: TiKV’s Journey to Smoother Performance
Whether you’re processing thousands of concurrent writes per second or scaling out infrastructure to meet a burst in demand, latency spikes can undermine user experience, reliability, and trust. At PingCAP, we obsess over these details. Our mission is to help teams build and scale confidently on distributed SQL. This post highlights how a subtle performance […]
Blazing-Fast Cluster Recovery: How TiDB 8.1 Redefines Large-Scale Data Restoration
Backup and restore are critical for ensuring business continuity, with the Recovery Time Objective (RTO) serving as a key metric for assessing restore performance. As TiDB continues to grow in popularity for its scalability, many users have datasets reaching hundreds of terabytes (TBs). That means the challenge of ensuring a fast RTO for such large […]
Kickstart Your Distributed SQL Journey: Setting Up TiDB Locally with TiUP Playground
TiDB is a powerful, open-source distributed SQL database built for handling both transactional and analytical workloads. With its MySQL compatibility, horizontal scalability, and real-time HTAP capabilities, it’s designed for modern, cloud-native architectures. In this distributed SQL tutorial, we’ll walk you through setting up a local TiDB cluster for development and testing in just a few […]
A Comprehensive Guide to TiDB’s Backup and Recovery Technology
Data loss can occur while using a database for various reasons, such as operator error, malicious hacker attacks, and server hardware failures. Backup and recovery technology is the final line of defense to ensure data can still be restored and used after such losses. TiDB, as a native distributed database, fully supports various backup and […]
From Plan to Execution: Zhihu’s Guide to Petabyte-Scale TiDB Database Migration
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 […]
Getting Started with JuiceFS Using TiKV
JuiceFS is an open-source, cloud-native distributed file system that allows users to freely choose the backend storage engine. This post introduces how to use TiKV as a metadata engine for JuiceFS.
How We Trace a KV Database with Less than 5% Performance Impact
As a key-value database, TiKV has much higher performance requirements than a regular application, so tracing tools must have minimal impact. Learn how we trace TiKV requests while impacting performance less than 5%.
TiFS, a TiKV-Based Partition Tolerant, Strictly Consistent File System
TiFS is a distributed file system built upon TiKV. It is partition tolerant, strictly consistent, and most efficient for reading and writing small files or other complicated file system operations.
How I Enabled TiKV Coprocessor to Support ENUM and SET Calculations
A TiKV contributor participated in the Coprocessor support ENUM/SET project and implemented these two calculations. This helped improve TiKV's calculation performance.
A Few More Reasons Rust Compiles Slowly
This is the fourth episode of the Rust Compile Time series. It discusses some factors that cause Rust to build slow, including LLVM, compiler architecture, and linking.
Rust’s Huge Compilation Units
The third episode of the Rust Compile Time series discusses why Rust's compilation units are so big and how that affects compile times.