TiDB
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3K+ Adopters
800+ Contributors
5K+ Slack UsersRelational Databases Redefined
TiDB powers business-critical transactional applications with a streamlined tech stack, elastic scaling, real-time analytics, and continuous access to data—all in a single distributed SQL database.
Reduce Cost
Accelerate Productivity
Lower Risk
Increase Innovation
What Makes TiDB So Advanced?
TiDB’s distributed architecture provides horizontal scalability, high availability, ACID transactions, and MySQL compatibility, while its unique mixed workload processing layer enables real-time analytics.
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The Placement Driver (PD) Layer functions just like a full-time DBA, monitoring millions of shards and performing hundreds of operations per minute.
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MySQL compatible, the TiDB SQL Layer separates compute from storage to make scaling simpler, delivering a true cloud-native architecture.
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Storage cluster
Consisting of row and column-based storage servers, the TiDB Storage Layer offers built-in high availability and strong consistency that can auto-scale to hundreds of nodes and petabytes of data.
The Advantages of Adopting TiDB
With TiDB’s advanced capabilities, growing companies can focus on building applications for the future without worrying about complex data infrastructure management.
Horizontal Scaling
Grants total transparency into data workloads without manual sharding.
High Availability
Guarantees auto-failover and self-healing for continuous access to data.
Strong Consistency
Maintains ACID transactions when distributing data globally.
Mixed Workloads
Streamlined tech stack makes it easier to produce real-time analytics.
MySQL Compatibility
Enjoy the most MySQL compatible distributed SQL database on the planet.
Multi-Cloud
Deploy database clusters anywhere in the world.
Open Source
Unlock business innovation with a database that’s 100% open source.
Robust Security
Protect data with enterprise-grade encryption both in-flight and at-rest.
MySQL Alternative
Migrate to a more affordable and elastic MySQL alternative that supports real-time analytics right out of the box.
Application Modernization
Boost developer productivity with a modern, distributed SQL database that offers true elastic scale and relentless reliability combined with mixed workload processing.
Real-Time Analytics
Enable your business to process and query new data as it’s created to guide decision making, enhance resource utilization, and improve customer experiences.
NoSQL Replacement
Scale your modern applications with better performance and consistency—all without worrying about the limitations that come with NoSQL databases.
Single View
Extract the value of your data across multiple businesses for all real-time applications while ensuring strong consistency.
Operational Data Management
Deliver smooth database operations with zero downtime for schema changes, hardware failure, or upgrades.
Tech Stack Unification
Reduce costs and system complexity with a unified data stack that can replace traditional relational databases, NoSQL databases, and lightweight data warehouses.
Deploy TiDB Your Way
Choose the product that best meets your business goals. You can download and use TiDB Community for free. You can also select a fully-managed DBaaS or self-managed offering of TiDB to simplify management and deployment at scale.
TiDB Serverless
Great for starter projects and evaluation
- Free to start, fully-managed cloud service
- Auto-scaling
- Consumption-based pricing
TiDB Dedicated
Ideal deployment for a cloud database
- Fully-managed cloud service
- Storage and compute-based pricing
- Can run on AWS or GCP
TiDB Self-Hosted
For teams who need to use their own infrastructure
- Enterprise subscription available
- Self-managed TiDB clusters
- Can run on-prem or in any cloud
- Apache 2.0 license
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Learn how to modernize your database with TiDB.