The Benefits of a Hybrid Transactional and Analytical Processing Database
Hybrid Transactional and Analytical Processing, or HTAP, is a defining feature of TiDB. It means that you can run both transactional and analytical queries from within the same database. TiDB provides HTAP, ensuring that your queries are always running against the most current data available.
Easy Local Development with TiDB
This post describes how you can develop your application locally and use the type of database used in production.
How to Deploy TiDB on Google Cloud Platform—Part 2
This post shows how to install, configure, and run TiDB on a Google Cloud Platform instance.
How to Deploy TiDB on Google Cloud Platform—Part 1
This two-part blog series will teach you how to get a TiDB cluster up and running on Google Cloud Platform. The first part shows how to prepare your GCP environment.
Simplifying Database Management in a Highly Automated and Scalable Cloud Environment with Google Cloud
To simplify the development of data-intensive applications of all sizes for global enterprises, PingCAP deploys its database service on Google Cloud, creating a fully managed database-as-a-service TiDB Cloud with high automation, scalability, ease of use, and security compliance.
TiDB 5.1: Easily Build Your Mission-Critical Applications at Any Scale
TiDB 5.1 is released. It features more stable latency, optimized MPP performance and stability, and more convenient maintenance. Developers and DBAs can more easily build mission-critical applications at any scale.
Empower Your Business with Big Data + Real-time Analytics in TiDB
Big data is a growing need for ambitious companies. Learn the usage, cost, and technology selection of real-time big data analytics and how TiDB prevails over other solutions.
Metrics Relation Graph Helps DBAs Quickly Locate Performance Problems in TiDB
TiDB v4.0.7 introduced a new feature: the metrics relation graph. It helps users clearly see the relationship between different performance metrics in a database cluster and thus quickly locate the root causes of performance problems.
How to Migrate Data from Amazon Aurora MySQL to TiDB Cloud
This post introduces how to smoothly migrate data from Amazon Aurora MySQL to TiDB Cloud using Dumpling and TiDB Lightning.
TiDB 4.0: An Elastic, Real-Time HTAP Database Ready for the Cloud
At TiDB DevCon 2020, Max Liu, CEO at PingCAP, gave a keynote speech. He believes that today's database should be more flexible, more real-time, and easier to use, and TiDB, an elastic, cloud-native, real-time HTAP database, is exactly that kind of database.
Cluster Diagnostics: Troubleshoot Cluster Issues Using Only SQL Queries
TiDB 4.0 introduces cluster diagnostics, a built-in widget in TiDB Dashboard, which lets you diagnose cluster problems within a specified time range. You can summarize the diagnostic results and cluster-related load monitoring information in a diagnostic report.
TiDB Dashboard: Easier Troubleshooting for Distributed Databases
TiDB 4.0 introduces TiDB Dashboard, which provides various built-in widgets in a graphical interface that let you easily diagnose, monitor, and manage your clusters in one place. Now you can troubleshoot TiDB clusters more easily.