TiDB Resource Control: Stable Workload Consolidation of Transactional Apps
Imagine you own data infrastructure at Super Sweet Tech, Inc (SST), a fictional company for the purpose of this story. Two big initiatives for the fiscal year fall to you. The first is to reduce costs. It’s not 2021 anymore, and the tech economy is tightening, along with its purses. The target is 20% reduction. […]
How Data Engineering is Powering Pinterest’s Global Platform
The following post is an excerpt from Technology Magazine’s feature article, How data engineering is powering Pinterest’s global platform. Pinterest had long recognized the need to streamline and optimize its data storage system. Using HBase, the image sharing and social media platform was carrying a large footprint, with more than 50 clusters and a total […]
Introducing TiDB Serverless: Now Generally Available as a Fully-Managed Cloud Service
Eight years ago, we embarked on an ambitious journey to construct an unparalleled distributed relational database. We aimed to redefine how developers and enterprises manage data, addressing the growing needs for scalability, flexibility, and performance. Guided by our company mission to empower developers and enterprises with speed, agility, and scale, our target was clear: to […]
Why TiDB is a Practical MySQL Alternative to MariaDB
Dive deep into two popular MySQL alternatives and discover why TiDB is a better option for extreme scalability and real-time analytics.
Presenting TiDB 7.1: Enhanced Stability and Performance for Business-Critical Applications
TiDB 7.1 LTS provides developers and infrastructure engineers with a future-proof distributed SQL database that can power a wide range of business-critical applications.
Announcing TiDB 7.0: Reliable Performance That’s Easier to Operate
Announcing TiDB 7.0, our latest preview release that offer features for reliable performance and streamlined database operations.
How Disaster Recovery (DR) Works in TiDB
In this post, we’ll focus on TiDB’s DR solutions. We’ll also analyze the pros and cons of these solutions as well as the most suitable deployment options.
The Next Revolution from On-Premises Databases to DBaaS
In this article, I’ll discuss why adopting DBaaS is a must for most companies, and why DBaaS will replace the traditional on-premises databases in the future.
Disaster Recovery for Databases: How It Evolves over the Years
In this post, you’ll learn the development of disaster recovery technologies and the databases that adopt those innovations.
How to Query Data from TiDB with SQL or Java
You’ll learn how to query data from a SQL database with SQL and Java respectively.
How TiDB Processes DML in Data Migration
Learn how Sync, Data Migration's core component, processes DML statements through the binlog replication workflow.
How Good is TiDB as an HTAP System? A HATtrick Benchmark
Inspired by the SIGMOD/PODS 22 paper “How Good is my #HTAP System” and HATtrick, the proposed benchmark tool, we tested the TP/AP performance isolation and horizontal scalability of TiDB as an HTAP database.