TiDB AgentX Hackathon 2025 Recap: Double the Submissions, Real-World AI on Display

The results are in, and they are spectacular. When we challenged the community to move beyond simple RAG demos, we never imagined the sheer ingenuity we’d see. With 219 incredible submissions, the AgentX Hackathon 2025 proved one thing: the era of sophisticated, multi-step AI agents is here. A New Chapter for TiDB Hackathons Last year’s […]

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 […]

Celebrating the TiDB Future App Hackathon 2024

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 […]

Dify.AI x TiDB: Build Scalable AI Agent with Knowledge Base

Introduction Building AI Agents can be an intricate affair, but it doesn’t have to be with the right tools. The combination of TiDB’s new Serverless Vector Search, now welcoming users in its Public Beta phase, alongside Dify’s intuitive low-code platform, simplifies the creation of scalable, efficient AI solutions. This guide offers a clear pathway to […]

Announcing the TiDB Future App Hackathon 2024

We’re excited to announce that another edition to TiDB Future App Hackathon will be taking place between July 26 – August 23, 2024! Our first global Hackathon last year was an amazing success with almost 1,500 participants from 87 countries (see the recap blog for more details) and we’re looking forward to an even bigger […]

Why Documentation is Important

Documentation (or “docs”) is such a key part of any open-source software project. If you have good docs, users will find it easy to get started. They’ll also be able to find answers on their own for the majority of questions as they use the software.  Even before I start evaluating technical products or organizations, […]

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.

Building a Web Application with Spring Boot and TiDB

This post shows you how to quickly build an application by leveraging Spring Boot and TiDB.

Data Transformation on TiDB Made Easier

Thanks to a new adapter, TiDB can now work with the data build tool (dbt), a popular open source transformation tool. Now, analytics engineers working with TiDB can directly create forms and match data through SQL. This tutorial walks you through the new adapter and how to use dbt with TiDB.

TiDB Hackathon 2021: Hacking Never Stops

This post reviews the TiDB Hackathon 2021 and briefly introduces the star projects created there.

Announcing TiFlash as an Open Source Project

We are pleased to announce that TiFlash, TiDB’s analytics engine, is now open sourced under Apache 2.0.

The Road to Chaos … as a Service

Chaos Mesh, an open source and cloud native chaos engineering platform, is uniquely suited for chaos-as-a-service and already delivers the fundamentals, and will hopefully support some chaos-as-a-service functionality in the next two to three years.
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