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Name

Description

TiDB is an open source distributed Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing (HTAP) database that supports MySQL and Spark SQL syntaxes.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

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Score	2.07
Rank	#117	Overall
	#60	Relational DBMS

Website

pingcap.com

Technical documentation

pingcap.com/docs

Developer

PingCAP, Inc.

Initial release

2016

Current release

3.0.0, June 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source info

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only info

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) info

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Go, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support info

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts info

Stored procedures

Triggers

Partitioning methods info

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning (by key range)

Replication methods info

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with TiSpark Connector

Consistency concepts info

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys info

Referential integrity

currently only supported in syntax

Transaction concepts info

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency info

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability info

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities info

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts info

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept. No user groups or roles.

More information provided by the system vendor

Specific characteristics

TiDB is an open source distributed scalable hybrid transactional and analytical processing (HTAP) database built by PingCAP.

TiDB Specific Characteristics:

Horizontal scalability
MySQL compatibility
Distributed transaction
Cloud native architecture
Minimize ETL
High availability

Competitive advantages

In the current database landscape, infrastructure engineers often have to use one database for online transactional processing (OLTP) and another for online analytical processing (OLAP). Seeing no good solution that can do both in real-time, PingCAP cofounders decided to build a globally scalable Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing (HTAP) database the open-source way.

Now, a new storage component that’s columnar-based, called TiFlash (currently in beta) is being introduced, that sits alongside TiKV.

TiDB aims to break down this separation by building an HTAP database that enables real-time business analysis based on live transactional data. With TiDB, engineers can now spend less time managing multiple database solutions, and more time delivering business value for their companies and customers.

Typical application scenarios

TiDB is designed to support both OLTP and OLAP scenarios. You can use TiDB, the stateless SQL layer compatible with MySQL, for OLTP and ad-hoc OLAP workload, and TiSpark, the TiDB connector for Spark, to process complex OLAP queries.

Use Case Scenarios:

Amount of data is too large for a standalone database
Don't want to use manual sharding solutions
Access mode has no obvious hotspot
Must have transactions, strong consistency, and disaster recovery

For more information, see best scenarios for TiDB.

Key customers

Bank of Beijing (Banking)
Mobike (Ridesharing)
Toutiao (Media)
Ele.me (Catering)
Qunar.com (Travel)
Yiguo.com (E-commerce)
Shopee (E-commerce)
BookMyShow.com (E-commerce)
GAEA (Gaming)
YOOZOO GAMES (Gaming)
FUNYOURS JAPAN (Gaming)
Wanda Internet Technology Group (Big Data)
360 Financial (FinTech)

See more TiDB Success Stories.

Market metrics

InfoWorld’s 2018 Best of Open Source Software Award winners
15000+ stars on GitHub
200+ community contributors and 300+ production users

Licensing and pricing models

Open Source Apache 2.0 with either commercial licensing or fully-hosted DB-as-a-service subscription model.

News

Porting TiDB to ARM64 for Greater Flexibility
16 August 2019

Migrating the TiKV Rust Client from Futures 0.1 to 0.3
8 August 2019

TiDB Operator 1.0 GA: Database Cluster Deployment and Management Made Easy with Kubernetes
30 July 2019

Why Benchmarking Distributed Databases Is So Hard
8 July 2019

The KOST Stack: An Open-Source Cloud-Native Hybrid Database Stack
4 July 2019

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Recent citations in the news

TiDB developer PingCAP wants to expand in North America after raising $50M Series C
11 September 2018, TechCrunch

How TiDB combines OLTP and OLAP in a distributed database
17 October 2018, InfoWorld

Percona Unveils Stellar Keynote Schedule for Eighth Annual Percona Live Open Source Database Conference
9 May 2019, GlobeNewswire

PingCAP offers titanium bullet to switch to its HTAP database
22 January 2019, DevClass

China’s Biggest Startups Ditch Oracle and IBM for Home-Made Tech
24 June 2019, Bloomberg

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