The 2018 Youzan PaaS meetup in Hangzhou featured deep dives into TiDB's distributed SQL architecture and performance gains in version 2.1, introduced the open‑source Zankv KV store built on Raft, and shared practical Elasticsearch search‑engine optimizations used at Youzan.
Facing rapid traffic growth and MySQL limitations, Tongcheng migrated its ticketing order database to a sharded MySQL cluster combined with TiDB, achieving transparent sharding, real‑time synchronization, high‑availability monitoring, and seamless handling of billions of rows and peak QPS over 10,000.
This article details how Tongcheng Network migrated massive ticketing and flight‑booking workloads to TiDB, combining sharding and a distributed SQL database to handle terabytes of data, real‑time monitoring, and high QPS traffic while simplifying operations and reducing costs.
Facing billions of rows spread across 1024 tables in 64 databases, a Chinese gaming platform replaced its custom sharding framework with TiDB, achieving real‑time OLTP consistency, elastic scaling, robust backup, high availability, and lower migration costs while preserving MySQL compatibility.
This guide explores why open‑source matters, shares PingCAP’s practical experience running TiDB, TiKV, and PD, and provides step‑by‑step advice on choosing licenses, managing repositories, fostering community contributions, and effectively participating in open‑source projects.
PingCAP co‑founder and CEO Liu Qi discusses the motivation behind creating TiDB, its evolution into a HTAP NewSQL database, key development priorities such as SQL enhancements, storage engine innovation, cloud‑native integration, and shares insights on open‑source project management and future database trends.
This article explains Qunar's transition from MySQL, Redis, and HBase to TiDB, detailing the background of distributed databases, TiDB's architecture, hardware selection, deployment automation, monitoring setup, and real‑world usage scenarios to address scalability and high‑availability challenges.
This article explains how Cloud TiDB leverages Kubernetes and tidb‑operator to achieve automated operation management, dynamic scaling, resource isolation, and high availability for a cloud‑native distributed database.
This article explains how Cloud TiDB, a cloud‑native NewSQL database launched by UCloud and PingCAP, leverages Kubernetes integration, operators, and custom volume management to provide elastic scaling, high availability, and efficient lifecycle management for distributed workloads.
The event showcases three technical talks covering the evolution of Hujiang's storage architecture, the transformation of the Dianrong payment system into a public service, and an introduction to the TiSpark project that integrates TiDB with Spark, highlighting design choices, trade‑offs, and future directions.
TiDB’s founder Huang Dongxu recounts the journey of building a MySQL‑compatible, distributed database—detailing early challenges, architectural decisions, the extensive testing, the adoption of Go, Rust, Raft, RocksDB, and the emphasis on metrics, cloud‑native design, and open‑source community collaboration.
This article summarizes the most recent releases of major NoSQL and NewSQL databases—including MongoDB 3.4, Redis 3.0/3.2, HBase 1.2.4, Apache Geode 1.0, TiDB RC1, and the final update of RethinkDB—highlighting key new capabilities, performance improvements, and operational enhancements.
This article presents a comprehensive technical overview of TiDB, a NewSQL distributed database, covering its architecture, SQL layer, KV engine, distributed transaction mechanisms, code implementation in Go, open‑source practices, and future roadmap.
