SUNNYVALE, Calif., April 24, 2025 – PingCAP, the developer of the distributed SQL database solution TiDB, has received a Gold Stevie® Award for its TiDB 8.5 product in the American Business Awards’® Big Data & Reporting Analytics Solution category.
PingCAP is the creator of TiDB, a unified database platform for transactions, real-time analytics and AI applications. It combines the scalability and performance of NoSQL systems with the reliability and consistency of a transactional database, making it an ideal foundation for hyperscale SaaS companies. Companies like Pinterest, Plaid, and Bolt rely on TiDB to support their most demanding applications.
Last year, PingCAP launched TiDB 8.5 with a new signature feature: Vector search, which empowers applications such as Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), recommendation systems and natural language processing. The release makes TiDB a powerful tool for AI-driven enterprises while eliminating the need for additional databases or technical stacks. TiDB enables engineering teams to run transactional workloads, real-time analytics and AI applications on the same platform, helping fast-growing companies accelerate development, simplify maintenance, improve analytics and reduce costs.
Key features of TiDB 8.5 include:
- Global Indexes for Partitioned Tables: Enhances retrieval efficiency for non-partitioned columns and removes the requirement for unique keys to include partition keys.
- Enhanced Monitoring and Insights: Integrated CPU time metrics for TiKV and TiDB into system tables, allowing for more effective monitoring and diagnostics of resource consumption.
- Resource Control Enhancements: Privilege controls for resource group management and setting maximum resource usage limits for background tasks ensure cluster stability and efficient resource utilization.
“Enterprises don’t have to choose between speed, scalability and operational simplicity in their SQL database,” said Max Liu, CEO of PingCAP. “TiDB 8.5 is engineered to meet the demands of modern workloads, offering a unified hyperscale solution that can handle transaction processing, real-time analytics and AI applications.”
The American Business Awards are the U.S.A.’s premier business awards program. All organizations operating in the U.S.A. are eligible to submit nominations – public and private, for-profit and non-profit, large and small.
More than 3,600 nominations from organizations of all sizes and in virtually every industry were submitted this year for consideration in a wide range of categories, including Startup of the Year, Executive of the Year, Best New Product or Service of the Year, Marketing Campaign of the Year, Thought Leader of the Year and App of the Year, among others.
“Organizations across the United States continue to demonstrate resilience and innovation,” said Stevie Awards president Maggie Miller. “The 2025 Stevie winners have helped drive that success through their innovation, persistence, and hard work. We congratulate all of the winners in the 2025 ABAs and look forward to celebrating their achievements during our June 10 gala event in New York.”
Details about The American Business Awards and the list of 2025 Stevie winners are available at www.StevieAwards.com/ABA.
About PingCAP
PingCAP is the creator of TiDB, the most advanced open-source, distributed SQL database. TiDB powers modern applications with a streamlined tech stack, elastic scaling, real-time analytics and continuous access to data—all in a single database solution. With PingCAP’s advanced capabilities, growing businesses can focus on the future instead of complex data infrastructure management. Some of the world’s largest companies across SaaS, fintech, e-commerce, and gaming trust TiDB to handle their business-critical workloads. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, PingCAP is backed by Sequoia Capital, GGV Capital, Access Technology Ventures, Coatue Management and others.
About the Stevie Awards
Stevie Awards are conferred in nine programs: the Asia-Pacific Stevie Awards, the German Stevie Awards, the Middle East & North Africa Stevie Awards, The American Business Awards®, The International Business Awards®, the Stevie Awards for Women in Business, the Stevie Awards for Great Employers, the Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service and the Stevie Awards for Technology Excellence. Stevie Awards competitions receive more than 12,000 entries each year from organizations in more than 70 nations. Honoring organizations of all types and sizes and the people behind them, the Stevies recognize outstanding performances in the workplace worldwide. Learn more about the Stevie Awards at http://www.StevieAwards.com.
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