TiDB is a prime example of an intrinsically scalable and reliable distributed SQL database architecture. Here’s how it works. In the good old days, databases had a relatively simple job: help with the ...

Earlier this year, analyst firm Gartner came up with a name for a category of hybrid processing that it believes will cause upheaval in established architectures. The ...

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Cloud-native is becoming the trend, and for databases, Kubernetes is the environment provider, and now Apache ShardingSphere provides a solution for putting a monolithic database on Kubernetes Apache ...

Kevin Xu is general manager of global strategy and operations at PingCAP. TiDB is an open-source, cloud-native, MySQL-compatible distributed database that handles hybrid transactional and analytical ...

Rethink high availability and disaster recovery for cloud-native database migration. Improve resilience, minimize downtime.