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Agentic AI changes the database problem. A single user action can trigger many agent steps. However, each agent needs state, memory, transactions, analytics, and retrieval to stay consistent under real production load. That pressure exposes the weak points in stacks built from separate OLTP databases, vector stores, warehouses, and sync pipelines. TiDB SCaiLE Europe 2026 […]

For teams standardized on Azure, distributed SQL has been a tradeoff. Stay on managed SQL Server or Azure Database for MySQL and live with single-instance scale ceilings. Step outside Azure to get horizontal scale.  Today, TiDB Cloud Dedicated on Microsoft Azure is Generally Available (GA), which removes that tradeoff. After nearly a year of public […]

The stories sound the same in every engineering review. A team ships a working AI prototype in a week. The demo is impressive. Leadership greenlights production. Six months later, the app is still not in production. The failure rarely traces back to the model. The team did not pick the wrong LLM. They did not […]

Cloud-native databases have made it easier to ship transactional applications. Managed services, automatic failover, and elastic storage are now table stakes. The harder problems show up later: When a multi-tenant SaaS app starts hitting tail-latency spikes during compaction, when a serverless tier saturates a noisy neighbor, or when a dedicated cluster sits at 30% utilization […]

Editor’s note: This post originally appeared on The New Stack and is republished with permission. The original version is available here. When enterprises talk about artificial intelligence, the attention usually points to models: larger parameters, faster inference, cheaper tokens. But we at next-gen database maker PingCAP contend that this framing misses the most consequential change now […]

Editor’s note: This post originally appeared on The New Stack and is republished with permission. The original version is available here. In the past, we judged enterprise databases by how useful they were to people like us. We rated them on how well they helped architects create schemas, DBAs plan capacity, and analysts build queries.  We […]

Editor’s note: This post originally appeared on The New Stack and is republished with permission. The original version is available here. For decades, database designers have built distributed databases around the assumption that storage must live close to compute. The farther data travels over the network, the reasoning goes, the greater the potential for delay. Local […]

Reducing P999 latency in distributed databases is one of the hardest challenges in modern OLTP systems. A handful of slow requests can cascade across services, break SLOs, and directly impact business outcomes, especially in latency-sensitive environments like trading platforms and real-time applications. This is the challenge of tail latency. As systems scale, variability compounds: queueing […]

We’re excited to announce that TiDB Cloud Zero is now available in Public Preview. TiDB Cloud Zero is designed for a new generation of AI agents and developers who want instant access to a real production-grade database without the traditional onboarding friction. With TiDB Cloud Zero, you can: This blog walks through the entire flow from zero to a claimed […]

I give talks for a living. Developer relations means standing in front of rooms full of engineers and explaining complex technical concepts clearly enough that people walk away understanding something new. The problem is that I retain things far better when I explain them out loud than when I read about them. Most people do. […]

Adding an index has always been a sensitive operation: The challenge is clear: How do we build indexes that are fast, stable, and minimally disruptive, even at massive scale? TiDB X, the latest version of TiDB that introduces dedicated object storage, addresses this problem through a combination of three major innovations: In this blog, we explain why […]

If you’ve worked with relational databases long enough, you’ve almost certainly encountered stored procedures. They made sense in an era when network latency was expensive and applications were monolithic, but the world has moved on. In this post, we’ll look at why stored procedures are holding teams back and what a modern alternative looks like. […]