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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	3.54
Rank	#93	Overall
	#49	Relational DBMS

Website

pingcap.com

Technical documentation

docs.pingcap.com/tidb/stable

Developer

PingCAP, Inc.

Initial release

2016

Current release

5.0.1, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud 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

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

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

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

Stored procedures

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning (by key range)

Replication methods

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

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

currently only supported in syntax

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

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 NewSQL database built by PingCAP. TiDB supports Hybrid Transactional and Analytical Processing (HTAP) workloads and is suitable for various use cases that require high availability and strong consistency with large-scale data.

TiDB Specific Characteristics:

Horizontal scalability
High Availability
Real-time HTAP
MySQL Compatible Syntax
Distributed Transactions with Strong Consistency
Cloud native
Minimize ETL

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

Shopee (E-commerce)
BookMyShow.com (E-commerce)
Yiguo.com (E-commerce)
JD Cloud & AI (Cloud Computing)
Zhihu (Knowledge sharing)
VNG (Mobile payment)
Xiaomi (Consumer Electronics)
Bank of Beijing (Banking)
Mobike (Ridesharing)
Jinri Toutiao (Mobile news platform)
Dailymotion (Media and Entertainment)
iQiyi (Media and Entertainment)
Qunar.com (Travel)
GAEA (Gaming)
YOOZOO GAMES (Gaming)
FUNYOURS JAPAN (Gaming)
360 Financial (FinTech)

See more TiDB case studies.

Market metrics

25K+ GitHub Stars for TiDB, and 8K+ GitHub Stars for TiKV
1.6K+ members in TiDB Community Slack, and 700+ members in TiKV Community Slack
1K+ community contributors
1K+ production adopters

Licensing and pricing models

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

News

TiDB Operator Source Code Reading (V): Backup and Restore
14 December 2021

Implementing Chaos Engineering in K8s: Chaos Mesh Principle Analysis and Control Plane Development
9 December 2021

TiDB 5.3: Delivering Enhancements for Data Intensive Applications
7 December 2021

Believe in the Multiplicative Power of Openness
30 November 2021

How to Connect TiDB Cloud to Metabase
24 November 2021

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Recent citations in the news

PingCap brings TiDB distributed SQL HTAP database to cloud
11 May 2022, TechTarget

Raft Engine: a Log-Structured Embedded Storage Engine for Multi-Raft Logs in TiKV
12 May 2022, InfoQ.com

Takuya Hirano Joins PingCAP as an Executive Advisor
19 May 2022, PR Newswire

PingCAP Enhances Support for Data Intensive Applications with TiDB 5.3
7 December 2021, PR Newswire

PingCap TiDB 5.3 Supports Both High Volume Transaction Processing and Real-Time Analytics
4 January 2022, Database Trends and Applications

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