Getting Started with Rails & TiDB
Integrating a complex ORM like ActiveRecord with TiDB can be difficult. This tutorial helps you get started with TiDB and Rails.
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.
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.
GitHub Discussions: Bringing the Open Source Community Closer Together and All in GitHub
This post introduces how Discussions, a beta feature GitHub recently launched, helps open source projects build their own communities or bring the communities nearer to the source code.
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.
How a Top Game Company Uses Chaos Engineering to Improve Testing
NetEase Fuxi AI Lab is China's first professional game AI research institution. In their search for a Chaos Engineering tool to test their Kubernetes-based AI training platform, they chose Chaos Mesh and have improved their system resiliency ever since.
Making an HTAP Database a Reality: What I Learned from PingCAP’s VLDB Paper
Recently, VLDB published the PingCAP paper, TiDB: A Raft-based HTAP Database. In this article, a DBA at PalFish shares his thoughts on the article and his expectations for TiDB's future development.
VLDB 2020: TiDB, A Raft-based HTAP Database
PingCAP will publish a research paper "TiDB: A Raft-based HTAP Database" in the August issue of the Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment.
TiDB Usability Challenge – Dare to Dream Bigger
TiDB Challenge Program is a series community program to bring TiDB to a new level in terms of stability, performance, and usability. With amazing improvements in performance in season 1 last year, we are now pleased to announce that season 2 is ready for you.
Landing Your First Rust Pull Request in TiKV
This guide is intended to show how you can land your first Pull Request (PR) in Rust to contribute to TiKV in less than 30 minutes. But before we do that, here's some helpful background.
Refactoring the Built-in Functions in TiDB
In order to accelerate expression evaluation, we recently refactored its framework. This tutorial will show you how to use the new computational framework to rewrite or add a built-in function in TiDB.
Adding Built-in Functions
TiDB code is updated and the procedure of adding built-in functions is greatly simplified. This document describes how to add built-in functions to TiDB.