Catalyst: Selecting TiDB for Our Hybrid Data Workload

Overview

Catalyst is a customer success platform that helps unify customer data and provides actionable data insights that drive retention and growth. These tasks are not easy, considering the challenges of multiple data sources, query latencies, and workload varieties. After a 9 day “hackhouse”, Catalyst decided to re-architect their data stack with TiDB database, an HTAP solution, as their data serving layer. Andy Trimble, Principal Engineer at Catalyst has a great HTAP story to tell, with tips and insights from their journey.