Why NinjaVan Switched from MySQL to TiDB

Overview

Ninja Van is one of Southeast Asia’s leading last-mile logistics companies, serving major e-commerce platforms like Amazon, Lazada, and Shopee.

As the company grew, its MySQL setup started showing strain — especially under heavy write workloads typical of large-scale logistics operations. Scaling up became increasingly difficult, and traditional single-instance databases couldn’t keep up. That’s when the team began exploring sharded and distributed database solutions.

In this video, Mani Kuramboyina, Head of Engineering for India, shares why Ninja Van chose TiDB, an open-source distributed SQL database. He highlights TiDB’s futuristic product roadmap and the way it proactively addresses many of the pain points of managing distributed systems. After a successful first deployment, Ninja Van has since expanded TiDB across multiple workloads, underscoring its reliability and scalability in production.