Thought Leadership

At HTAP Summit 2024, Dave Burgess, an industry veteran, angel investor, and ex-VP of Data Engineering at Pinterest, walked through why distributed SQL has emerged as a key component of modern SaaS platforms. As Burgess explained during his keynote, traditional databases like MySQL and PostgreSQL may serve startups initially. However, as businesses scale and encounter […]

Financial services are rapidly transforming to adopt AI, digitize operations, and enhance customer experiences, yet many banks struggle with outdated legacy data systems that limit AI adoption.  At the Silverlake Axis Customer Connect Conference (SACCC), held from October 17 to 20, 2024, in Da Nang, Vietnam, industry leaders focused on modernizing banking infrastructure. C-suite executives, […]

Scaling database systems remains one of the biggest challenges facing growing companies modernizing IT infrastructure. Max Liu, Co-Founder and CEO of PingCAP, discussed these critical scaling challenges during his opening keynote, “What’s Next for SQL @ Scale,” at HTAP Summit 2024. Drawing from real-world examples and industry insights, Liu explored how TiDB addresses the limitations […]

Data loss can occur while using a database for various reasons, such as operator error, malicious hacker attacks, and server hardware failures. Backup and recovery technology is the final line of defense to ensure data can still be restored and used after such losses.  TiDB, as a native distributed database, fully supports various backup and […]

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 […]

Discover how Kissflow moved from a traditional SQL-based system to a unified data strategy leveraging Hybrid HTAP.

During the recent HTAP Summit, I had the honor of celebrating another successful TiDB Future App Hackathon and announcing our winners. This year, we had close to 2,100 participants–about 40% increase from 2023–joining us from 80+ countries. If you visit the Hackathon project gallery, you will be able to see the winners and all other […]

The role of relational databases in processing large data volumes at scale has never been more critical. But what’s next for these databases as demands for AI and real-time operational intelligence add greater technical complexity? Join us at HTAP Summit 2024 for answers to this question (and more!) This event is a one-stop destination for […]

In the era of cloud computing and Software as a Service (SaaS), it’s essential to optimize resource use and scalability in databases. Multi-tenant architecture meets these needs by allowing a single database instance to serve multiple customers, or tenants. This ensures each tenant’s data remains isolated and secure, leading to enhanced cost efficiency, simplified management, […]

HTAP Summit, the only industry-leading conference focused on Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing (HTAP), has officially opened its 2024 call for proposals. Now in its third year, HTAP Summit, organized by PingCAP, gathers database experts, innovators, and enthusiasts to share knowledge and experience about distributed database architecture, real-time operational intelligence and ways modern data technologies can drive […]

This blog introduces Web3Bench, a hybrid transaction/analytical processing (HTAP) benchmark that addresses earlier limitations. Web3Bench is based on real-world Web3 use cases that utilize HTAP. Our data model is a simplified version of the decentralized blockchain Ethereum. We leverage a sample data set from Ethereum to build a scale factor-based data generator. The workload in […]

In this blog, we introduce TiDB Index Advisor—or TiAdvisor for short—a novel tool that automates index discovery to enhance user workload performance. We also outline the techniques employed in building this tool and provide use cases that validate its results. Why Do We Need a TiDB Index Advisor? Database indexes provide faster access to data. […]