TiDB System Properties

TiDB is an open-source, distributed SQL database built for cloud-native, data-intensive, and AI-driven applications. It unifies OLTP, real-time operational analytics, and AI-ready workloads within a single platform. TiDB’s distributed architecture provides horizontal scalability, high availability, and strong ACID consistency while maintaining MySQL compatibility.

With flexible deployment options—including TiDB Cloud Starter, TiDB Cloud Dedicated, and TiDB Self-Managed—organizations can run TiDB anywhere: on any cloud, on-premises, or in hybrid environments. TiDB enables seamless scaling, built-in resilience, and continuous access to real-time data without operational friction.

• Horizontal scaling:TiDB provides seamless scaling with automatic sharding, while built-in security controls safeguard data as it scales effortlessly.
• 99.99% availability:TiDB ensures continuous access to data with automated failover, self-healing capabilities, and secure data recovery, providing uninterrupted uptime and zero data loss.
• Strong ACID consistency:Maintains ACID transactions with strong data consistency, integrity checks, and compliance with global data privacy regulations when distributing data globally.
• Optimized for mixed workloads:TiDB's streamlined tech stack is optimized for transactional, analytical, and AI workloads, while ensuring data security and privacy.
• MySQL compatibility:Leverage the world's most MySQL-compatible distributed SQL database, with enhanced security and reliability, all built on a familiar platform.
• Multi-cloud support:Easily deploy database clusters across your preferred cloud platforms. Benefit from end-to-end encryption and full compliance with each cloud provider's security standards.
• Open source foundation: TiDB unlocks business innovation with a transparent, community-driven, and secure database that's 100% open source.
• Robust security and compliance:TiDB protects data with enterprise-grade encryption, both in-flight and at-rest, supported by regular security audits and compliance certifications such as GDPR, CCPA, and SOC2.
• Cloud-native object storage:TiDB offers durable, low-cost, cloud-optimized storage that enables elastic scale and fast Point-In-Time Recovery (PITR).
• Workload isolation:TiDB separates background jobs from foreground queries with modular services.

TiDB’s cloud-native design separates and compute to deliver elasticity and resilience. TiDB’s SQL Layer provides distributed SQL processing and automatic load balancing, while the Placement Driver (PD) manages metadata, load balancing, and data distribution across clusters. TiDB’s Storage Layer combines row-store, column-store, and object-store engines to handle transactional, operational, and AI workloads efficiently while delivering up to 11 nines of durability.

• Financial systems of record and transaction platforms
• Large-scale SaaS applications with multi-tenant workloads
• E-commerce and digital platforms requiring elastic performance
• Real-time analytics and operational dashboards
• AI-native workloads, including RAG and semantic search

Plaid, Square, Pinterest, Bolt, Flipkart, Atlassian, Capcom, Rakuten, Mercari, Conga, Shopee, Manus, Dify, JD Cloud & AI, Zhihu, VNG, Xiaomi, Dailymotion, and 360 Financial. (Read the customer stories here.)

These enterprises use TiDB to achieve zero-downtime scalability, faster development cycles, and significant operational cost reduction.

• 39K+ GitHub stars (source code repository)
• 5K+ members in the TiDB Community Slack (community workspace)
• 1K+ community contributors
• 3K+ production adopters

• TiDB Community: Free open-source software under the Apache License 2.0 (download and source)
• TiDB Self-Managed: Enterprise subscription for self-managed TiDB clusters (pricing upon request)
• TiDB Cloud Essential (Public Preview): Fully managed cloud DBaaS for production workloads with autoscaling and usage-based billing
• TiDB Cloud Dedicated: Fully managed cloud DBaaS for predictable workloads with advanced requirements and enterprise SLAs
• TiDB Cloud Starter: Fully managed cloud DBaaS with a free tier and autoscaling usage-based pricing