Rethinking Scale: TiDB’s Evolution Into an AI Agent Database
Recently, I’ve been meeting customers across industries including AIaaS, Web3, and FinTech. No matter where I go, the conversation always turns to one thing: AI. Everyone’s asking the same question: “How will AI transform our business, and how does TiDB embrace this change?” So, I started sharing what had been on my mind lately. “The era […]
How to Stream Data from Kafka to TiDB
Modern applications generate enormous amounts of event data with user actions, transactions, logs, and metrics all happening in real time. To handle this scale, many teams rely on Apache Kafka, a distributed messaging system that decouples applications from their data pipelines and ensures reliable, high-throughput data delivery. On the storage side, TiDB provides a distributed SQL database that […]
Database Sharding Explained: Strategies for Scalable SQL Performance
Database sharding is a data architecture strategy that increases database performance by splitting up data into chunks and then spreading these chunks “intelligently” across multiple database servers (or database instances). These chunks of data are called shards, while each shard contains a subset of our data. All shards represent the entire set of data, and […]
Change Data Capture (CDC): A Complete Guide for Modern Data Teams
In the areas of data management and real-time analytics, Change Data Capture (CDC) has become an indispensable tool. CDC is a software operation that enables you to monitor and record changes in your source database. From there, you can subsequently apply those changes to your target database. These changes could be new records, updates, or […]
Introducing TiDB X: A New Foundation for Distributed SQL in the Era of AI
Ask any engineering team managing a modern application today, and you’ll hear the same frustrations: traffic spikes that can’t be predicted, autoscalers that react too slowly, and workloads that look nothing like they did yesterday. One hour you’re processing transactions, the next you’re serving analytical or vector queries — all in real time, all under […]
How ElasticRun Adopted TiDB to Seamlessly Scale Peak E-Commerce Workloads
In India’s dynamic e-commerce landscape, ElasticRun plays a pivotal role as the invisible infrastructure behind last-mile deliveries and deep rural distribution. The company’s ability to connect rural grocery stores to modern commerce hinges on technology and more specifically, a backend architecture that can keep up with relentless growth and fluctuating demand. But as their user […]
Delivering at Scale: How Ninja Van Powers Millions of Shipments with TiDB
Founded in 2014 in Singapore, Ninja Van is a leading last-mile logistics provider operating across six countries in Southeast Asia: Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Vietnam, and Thailand — with nationwide coverage in each market. Ninja Van’s platform handles logistics for top-tier e-commerce players such as Amazon and Lazada. Offering services that span from parcel […]
Real-Time Streaming: Integrating TiDB Cloud Changefeed with StreamNative Cloud
At PingCAP, our mission with TiDB Cloud is to make data easier, faster, and more powerful for developers and enterprises. Today, we’re taking that vision one step further with a new capability: streaming real-time data changes directly from TiDB Cloud into the StreamNative Cloud ecosystem. This integration, powered by TiDB Cloud’s Changefeed feature, gives you […]
Unleashing TiDB Scalability: The Next Generation of DDL Execution
Schema changes at scale can be a nightmare for SaaS applications. Slow index creation, long-running schema modifications, and scalability limits can disrupt operations, making real-time database evolution nearly impossible. TiDB has been tackling these challenges head-on, continuously pushing the boundaries of distributed SQL and DDL execution. Last year, we boosted index creation speed by 10x, enabling […]
From Outages to Velocity: Designing a Resilient, Elastic Data Layer with Distributed SQL
Most companies suffer from a serious problem that limits their growth, and most don’t even know it. By the time they find out, it’s costing them millions in missed opportunities for product progress. It’s an infrastructure bottleneck — the root cause of most major issues with online applications. It causes downstream outages. It slows, and […]
Why TiDB SCaiLE 2025 is a Must-Attend Event
Mark your calendars for October 7–8, 2025! TiDB SCaiLE 2025 heads to Mountain View’s Computer History Museum, where the future of distributed SQL, cloud-native scale, and AI-ready infrastructure comes into sharp focus . Let’s walk through a few of the key reasons why you shouldn’t miss this event. Experience a High-Impact Hybrid Scale Strategy TiDB SCaiLE (formerly […]
Exploring TiDB Observability: A Journey Through Real-World Case Studies
Have you ever seen two nearly identical SQL statements, differing only in date parameters or function variations, return similar results but with wildly different performance, sometimes by factors of 10 or 100? In real-world scenarios, we typically run the `EXPLAIN` statement to examine changes in the execution plan. But what if the execution plan doesn’t […]