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At PingCAP, security is one of our core values. We always strive to support the latest security standards to ensure your high-scale, mission-critical applications are always secure. By integrating the OAuth 2.0 authorization code flow, TiDB Cloud enhances both security and usability, providing you with robust, secure access to your cloud resources. In today’s cloud […]

TiDB Cloud is a powerful MySQL-compatible database-as-a-service (DBaaS) for diverse industries, trusted by many leading companies such as Catalyst and CAPCOM. Today, we’re thrilled to announce a major update: TiDB Cloud now supports OAuth 2.0! OAuth 2.0 is a secure authorization protocol that lets you leverage existing login credentials from platforms like Google, Microsoft, and […]

Why TiDB Serverless is the right long-term choice if you’re migrating from your former provider’s free plan. Change is constant in the world of developer toolkits. It’s beneficial because it enables us to deliver more value, faster. New technologies, products, and open-source projects propel this dynamic progress. But it’s a different story when someone else’s […]

In early 2023, TiDB Cloud introduced Chat2Query, a new tool that leverages OpenAI’s capabilities to help explore and interact with databases through natural language. After a year of continuous improvements, we’re excited to share that Chat2Query has now become even more powerful. In this blog, we dive deeper into three major improvements to Chat2Query that […]

Maintaining database stability is paramount for any business, as unexpected dips in performance for critical systems can cause substantial losses. By streamlining change testing processes or employing new technologies, you can limit unforeseen incidents within a certain range. However, sudden SQL performance issues, such as drastic data volume changes, increasingly complicated queries, and partially validated […]

In our previous post, we introduced TiDB Cloud Data Service (TCDS), a fully managed, low-code backend-as-a-service solution. By seamlessly integrating your data with any application or service through HTTPS, TCDS enables developers to rapidly construct secure and scalable data-driven applications.  This blog guides you through building REST endpoints with TCDS while constructing a Task Tracker app. […]

We’re thrilled to share that TiDB Serverless (now callded TiDB Cloud Starter), our fully managed Database-as-a-Service offering, is introducing a built-in vector search to the MySQL landscape. With this support, you will be able to develop your AI applications using TiDB Serverless without requiring a new database or additional technical stacks. Join the waitlist for […]

We are thrilled to introduce a significant enhancement to TiDB Cloud’s security features: Organization Single-Sign-On (SSO) Authentication. This new feature streamlines enterprise authentication processes, enabling seamless integration with any Identity Provider (IdP) using Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) or OpenID Connect (OIDC). Enterprise authentication is crucial to securing access to resources and data within TiDB […]

In this blog, we introduce TiDB Index Advisor—or TiAdvisor for short—a novel tool that automates index discovery to enhance user workload performance. We also outline the techniques employed in building this tool and provide use cases that validate its results. Why Do We Need a TiDB Index Advisor? Database indexes provide faster access to data. […]

When building applications for global users, it is common for users to make requests to servers located far from the region where the application is deployed. This often leads to a poor user experience due to network latency. Therefore, reducing latency is vital in such scenarios. OSSInsight, our open-source GitHub project insight platform, faces the […]

Efficient backend management is a cornerstone of successful application development. Navigating this realm poses significant challenges, especially when aligning with emerging backend trends. This often leads to time-consuming and repetitive architectural processes. To solve this challenge, we introduce TiDB Serverless and TiDB Cloud Data Service (TCDS) —remarkable product offerings of TiDB Cloud. TiDB Serverless is […]

A key aspect of Database as a Service (DBaaS) solutions is ensuring zero downtime, especially during system upgrades. Zero downtime is paramount as it guarantees uninterrupted service, a critical requirement for mission-critical applications running on the database.  TiDB Dedicated is PingCAP’s fully-managed cloud Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) platform on AWS and GCP. This DBaaS uses managed Kubernetes […]