Blazing-Fast Cluster Recovery: How TiDB 8.1 Redefines Large-Scale Data Restoration
Backup and restore are critical for ensuring business continuity, with the Recovery Time Objective (RTO) serving as a key metric for assessing restore performance. As TiDB continues to grow in popularity for its scalability, many users have datasets reaching hundreds of terabytes (TBs). That means the challenge of ensuring a fast RTO for such large […]
Revolutionizing Loyalty Programs: Rakuten’s Journey to Distributed SQL
Achieving a balance between scalability and operational efficiency has become a defining challenge for data-driven businesses. At HTAP Summit 2024, Alex Bai, Engineering Manager at Rakuten, and Tim Liu, Engineering Lead, shared their journey of overcoming the limitations of traditional databases like Apache Cassandra and MySQL to meet the demands of high-traffic platforms and critical […]
Building for Scale: The Blueprint for Distributed SQL Databases That Meet Modern Demands
Welcome to the Distributed SQL Era: What AWS’s Entry Means for You Modern applications are pushing the boundaries of what databases can handle. As businesses expand, they face unprecedented demands—hyper-scaling applications, global deployments, and real-time responsiveness—that traditional databases simply weren’t designed to meet. Distributed SQL databases have emerged as a blueprint for success, but not […]
Navigating Business Growth: How TiDB Scales Petabyte-Level Data Volumes
Business growth is an exciting milestone, bringing more users, transactions, and opportunities to innovate. However, with growth comes significant technical challenges, such as: In this blog, we’ll explore how TiDB, an open-source distributed SQL database, addresses these business growth challenges. We’ll also walk through real-world examples from companies such as Bolt and Flipkart. Bolt: A […]
How Mercari Scaled Its SaaS Platform with Distributed SQL
At HTAP Summit 2024, Takashi Honda, a Database Reliability Engineer at Mercari, shared insights into why distributed SQL has become indispensable for SaaS platforms. Drawing from his extensive experience optimizing large-scale infrastructures, Honda illustrated how traditional databases like MySQL and PostgreSQL often reach their limits in performance, scalability, and operational inefficiencies as businesses scale. In this […]
Defining a Scalable System: What It Really Means to Be “Future Proof”
Building a scalable system that’s also future proof has become a critical factor for organizations who want to maintain a competitive edge. At HTAP Summit 2024, PingCAP Software Architect Sunny Bains uncovered the challenges and solutions associated with scaling such complex systems. He highlighted the importance of robust, flexible architectures and showcased how TiDB, an […]
Pipelined DML in TiDB: A Breakthrough for Managing Large Transactions
Managing large transactions in distributed databases has always been a tough nut to crack. From processing millions of records during migrations to tackling complex workflows like ETL (Extract, Transform, Load), businesses need database solutions that are not only fast but also reliable. TiDB has long been at the forefront of distributed SQL database innovation, and […]
Accelerating Distributed SQL Adoption: How Plaid Migrated 41 Services from Amazon Aurora in One Year
Plaid is a financial services company that builds a data transfer network for applications to connect with users’ bank accounts. At HTAP Summit 2024, Zander Hill, Experienced Software Engineer at Plaid, and Andrew Chen, Engineering Manager at Plaid, shared an in-depth look into their company’s ambitious migration from Amazon Aurora to a distributed SQL database […]
From Plan to Execution: Zhihu’s Guide to Petabyte-Scale TiDB Database Migration
Author: Xiaolei Dai, Database lead at Zhihu Efficient and reliable data migration is crucial for large-scale online services. Zhihu, one of China’s largest knowledge-sharing platforms, recently undertook the complex task of online migration for dozens of TiDB databases, totaling petabytes (PB) of data. This blog post, based on the expertise of Zhihu’s database lead, Dai […]
How Kissflow Breaks Down Silos: A Unified Data Strategy
Discover how Kissflow moved from a traditional SQL-based system to a unified data strategy leveraging Hybrid HTAP.
Open Source is in Our DNA: Reaffirming TiDB’s Commitment
When we first set out to build TiDB, we didn’t just want to create another database—we wanted to build a community-driven, open-source project that developers worldwide could trust and contribute to. From day one, TiDB has been an open-source project under the Apache 2.0 license, and it remains so today. Open source isn’t just a […]
Scaling to the Cloud: TiDB Serverless vs. PlanetScale
Today, it’s normal for apps to be available at any time of day, no matter where you are in the world. But to meet that expectation, you need to make sure your infrastructure can scale to match demand, work around failure, and maintain consistent performance. The good news is that several database platforms promise to […]