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.
Distributed Systems Training in Go and Rust
PingCAP has made a talent plan for training and/or evaluating students, new employees, and new contributors to TiDB and TiKV. This blog post gives a brief overview of training courses for this plan on writing distributed systems in Go and Rust.
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.