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comment by boorbat · 2026-10-21 · in PingCap TiDB Leaks

…- Redis/ValKey compatible distributed database with disk persistence via RockDB. https://github.com/pingcap/tidb - MySQL compatible distributed database. Mentioned elsewhere in this thread. https://github.com/tikv/tikv - Distributed, trans

comment by nbf_1995 · 2025-07-01 · in Show HN: ToplingDB - A Persistent Key-Value Store for External Storage

…Geographic placement of replicas can be configured for different disaster tolerance levels. See https://github.com/pingcap/tidb?tab=readme-ov-file#key-featu... Correctness has been a focus for a long time for TiDB, including working on…

comment by travem · 2025-01-07 · in TiDB – cloud-native, distributed SQL database written in Go

…should read through not just this but other currently-open correctness-related Github issues: e.g., https://github.com/pingcap/tidb/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20state%... TiDB currently has 74 open issues related to "correctness," and has closed…

comment by PeterCorless · 2025-01-07 · in TiDB – cloud-native, distributed SQL database written in Go

…style https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/master/pkg/con... - TIDB uses 2-block style https://github.com/pingcap/tidb/blob/master/pkg/ddl/placemen... - MinIO uses 2-block https://github.com/minio/minio/blob/master/internal/grid/co…

comment by cybrexalpha · 2024-08-12 · in Go is my hammer, and everything is a nail

tidb has been around for a while, it is distributed, written in Go and Rust, and MySQL compatible. https://github.com/pingcap/tidb Somewhat relatedly, StarRocks is also MySQL compatible, written in Java and C++, but it's tackling OLAP…

comment by didip · 2024-04-09 · in A MySQL compatible database engine written in pure Go

It's MySQL-Compatible database for scale and real-time analytics https://github.com/pingcap/tidb

comment by Hooopo · 2023-10-25 · in Show HN: GitHub Organization Analytics

…users today, there are modern cloud-native replacement solutions, such as tidb(tidbcloud.com), where tidb (github.com/pingcap/tidb) provides a MySQL-compatible syntax layer but it's not MySQL. Interests: I work at TiDB

comment by c4pt0r · 2023-05-12 · in Ask HN: It's 2023, how do you choose between MySQL and Postgres?

…| Remote in California | Full-time We work on a MySQL compatible distributed database called TiDB https://github.com/pingcap/tidb/ and key-value store called TiKV. TiDB is written in Go and TiKV is written in Rust. More roles and locations…

comment by dveeden2 · 2023-01-02 · in Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2023)

Isn't TiDB built on top of TiKV?[0] [0]: https://github.com/pingcap/tidb

comment by c0balt · 2022-10-07 · in Apache Pegasus - A horizontally scalable, high-performance key-value store

…ps://www.snowflake.com/workloads/unistore/ ), and one of the most popular open source projects TiDB ( https://github.com/pingcap/tidb ) which have been deployed by many business applications. Hopefully these may help a little bit :-)

comment by jerryjerryjerry · 2022-07-16 · in What is your experience with mixed workload (OLTP and OLAP) databases?

…with some options of this blog. As the maintainer of the open source distributed database TiDB https://github.com/pingcap/tidb , we also face the same problem of choice. We have a community version, an enterprise version(of course, we must…

comment by siddontang · 2022-07-14

…in 2022. Distributed RDBMS is already a thing, used in production, in many companies. Like TiDB( https://github.com/pingcap/tidb ) mentioned in the article, Square already uses it to replace some MySQL's use cases (…

comment by azurezyq · 2022-07-10 · in I Don't Want to Shard (MySQL)

…and think it has a lot of merit. But there are also https://www.cockroachlabs.com/product/ , https://github.com/pingcap/tidb and https://ydb.tech/ which each has promise. There is definitely lots of progress to make in this space. From…

comment by kevincox · 2022-07-04 · in We are splitting our database into Main and CI

…Activity feature is a little slow. I experienced the "Try Gitea" service and migrated our TiDB repo https://github.com/pingcap/tidb to it. When I clicked the Activity tab and selected "1 year" period, I found the page loading was so slow,…

comment by siddontang · 2022-06-05 · in Gitea – a painless self-hosted Git service

…) I have been thinking about this problem with my peers when I started to build TiDB ( https://github.com/pingcap/tidb ) seven years ago. At that time, nearly all of us were familiar with Go language, so we decided to use Go to build the…

comment by siddontang · 2022-05-28

…[1] https://fly.io/blog/globally-distributed-postgres/ [2] https://github.com/tikv/tikv [3] https://github.com/pingcap/tidb

comment by nextaccountic · 2022-01-22 · in Free Postgres databases for small projects

Another Chinese database seems to be doing a better job at this front: https://github.com/pingcap/tidb

comment by azurezyq · 2021-06-01 · in Oceanbase, yet another open source HTAP database

…For CTEs, stay tuned for the next release (TiDB 5.0) or perhaps track this github issue: https://github.com/pingcap/tidb/issues/17472

comment by gregwebs · 2020-08-29 · in We Chose a Distributed SQL Database to Complement MySQL

Shameless plug: You might be interested in TiDB ( https://github.com/pingcap/tidb ), an open-source distributed HTAP database. - For OLTP workload and some ad-hoc queries, you can use TiDB + TiKV. One of our adopters has a production…

comment by mountainview · 2020-04-03 · in PostgreSQL is the worlds’ best database

…the deployment and rolling upgrade for on-prem users; B. We built and open-sourced TiDB Operator ( https://github.com/pingcap/tidb-operator ) to enable TiDB on Kubernetes. We are working on a fully managed service in the public cloud…

comment by dongxu · 2019-12-25 · in How We Achieved 40K QPS and 20B Rows of Data in a Single Scale-Out Cluster

This is a demo site to show how you can use TiDB-Wasm to run TiDB SQL statements your browser. https://github.com/pingcap/tidb/pull/13069 Known Limitations: - TiDB-Wasm includes TiDB server only. TiDB is the stateless MySQL component of…

comment by jinqueeny · 2019-11-07 · in Show HN: TiDB Playground, writing SQL in a Golang Database in WebAssembly

More details can be found here: https://github.com/pingcap/tidb/pull/13069

comment by ngaut · 2019-11-05 · in An open source database playground by compiling Go to WebAssembly

TiDB is Apache 2.0 licensed, but it is MySQL compatible and features horizontal scalability. https://github.com/pingcap/tidb

comment by l2dy · 2019-10-28 · in Ask HN: What products or services do you wish existed for your startup?

…scale-out MySQL that supports both multiple writes and multiple reads, feel free to give TiDB ( https://github.com/pingcap/tidb ) a try.

comment by jinqueeny · 2019-08-09 · in Build Highly Available MySQL Applications Using Amazon Aurora Multi-Master

…to be simple capitalism at play -- nobody wants to pay the Oracle tax if they can avoid it. [1] https://github.com/pingcap/tidb

comment by 9nGQluzmnq3M · 2019-06-25 · in China’s Biggest Startups Ditch Oracle and IBM for Home-Made Tech

…into anything like this again, please open up a new issue and we'll be happy to take a look!" [1] https://github.com/pingcap/tidb/issues/2742

comment by tepidandroid · 2019-06-12 · in PingCAP Talent Plan: Courses on writing distributed systems in Go and Rust

Rust core dev Brian Anderson joined Pingcap, a Chinese company created TiDB https://github.com/pingcap/tidb

comment by decster · 2019-05-27 · in Chinese developers fear the tech war will cost them access to GitHub

Update: The documentation has now been updated https://github.com/pingcap/tidb/pull/9144

comment by morgo · 2019-01-22 · in TiDB open sources its MySQL/MariaDB compatible data migration tool

…for both OLTP (Online Transactional Processing) and OLAP (Online Analytical Processing) workloads. https://github.com/pingcap/tidb

comment by blakesterz · 2019-01-22 · in TiDB open sources its MySQL/MariaDB compatible data migration tool

…share your sentiment, and at the moment you can probably best track or progress on this issue here: https://github.com/pingcap/tidb/issues/8484 The explanation is just that TiDB is being developed with tight feedback from our customers…

comment by gregwebs · 2018-12-04 · in TiDB 2.1 GA: Battle-Tested to Handle an Unpredictable World

So many implementations of this out there already, like tidb. https://github.com/pingcap/tidb So yes i can believe it!

comment by dana321 · 2018-11-30 · in Why the RDBMS is the future of distributed databases

And distributed database: https://github.com/pingcap/tidb

comment by ngaut · 2018-08-04 · in Go 1.11 Beta 3 is released

TiDB is a distributed HTAP database compatible with the MySQL protocol( https://github.com/pingcap/tidb )

comment by ngaut · 2018-07-02 · in Ask HN: What highly scalable thing have you built with Go?

…by 451 Research - Translytical, by Forrester If that's the solution you want to explore, TiDB ( https://github.com/pingcap/tidb ), the open source distributed scalable HTAP database, might be able to help you. ETL is no longer necessary…

comment by jinqueeny · 2018-07-02 · in How to make MongoDB not suck for analytics

…a bit more about CockroachDB, which consciously does some things differently from Postgres. [1] https://github.com/pingcap/tidb/issues/2712

comment by elvinyung · 2018-06-20 · in MySQL High Availability at GitHub

…are exposed and quicker to get a fix or workaround. If you are open to trying other options, TiDB ( https://github.com/pingcap/tidb ) is also a good choice. A use case is just published on Datanami today:…

comment by qiuyesuifeng · 2018-02-23 · in CockroachDB Interactive, D3-Powered Simulations

TiDB seems to have a pretty active community, judging by its repo ( https://github.com/pingcap/tidb ). Also, saw this thread on TiDB v MySQL recently that's pretty detailed ( https://www.quora.com/How-does-TiDB-compare-with-MySQL ). Looks…

comment by ceohockey60 · 2018-02-16 · in MongoDB gets support for multi-document ACID transactions

…due to growing BI query complexity and it’s been hard to fix this. Maybe they should try TiDB( https://github.com/pingcap/tidb ). It is a MySQL drop-in replacement that scales.

comment by shenli3514 · 2018-02-14 · in What I wish I knew when I became CTO

Another good candidate is TiDB ( https://github.com/pingcap/tidb ). It has elastic scalability, ACID compliances, high availability, etc. At least, TiDB, CRDB, RethinkDB are open source :)

comment by jinqueeny · 2017-12-06 · in “Follow-The-Workload” Beats the Latency-Survivability Tradeoff in CockroachDB

TiDB and CockroachDB also support distributed transactions. The transaction model in TiDB ( https://github.com/pingcap/tidb ) is inspired by Google Percolator, It’s mainly a two-phase commit protocol with some optimizations. More info on…

comment by jinqueeny · 2017-11-23 · in How Citus Executes Distributed Transactions on Postgres

Another great NewSQL database, TiDB, is production ready: https://github.com/pingcap/tidb

comment by jinqueeny · 2017-10-18 · in Kindred and CockroachDB Partner to Build a Global Online Gaming Platform

Wow! Congratulations! For those who want to check it out: https://github.com/pingcap/tidb

comment by jinqueeny · 2017-10-18 · in Show HN: TiDB 1.0 is production ready

Are you referring to this? https://github.com/pingcap/tidb/issues/2742 They misunderstood your bug report, but they certainly didn't tell you to "go f* yourself". In fact, someone later relabeled the ticket as a compatibility issue with…

comment by graciouspants · 2017-10-12 · in CockroachDB 1.1 Released: Production Made Easy

…choices out there, Google Spanner, Cockroachdb( https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach ), TiDB ( https://github.com/pingcap/tidb ). All of them are very easy to scale while maintaining the ACID transactions.

comment by jinqueeny · 2017-09-26 · in Why SQL is beating NoSQL, and what this means for the future of data

…there. TiDB, CockroachDB, Spanner, just to name a few. Besides, the first two are open source... https://github.com/pingcap/tidb https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach They provide the features of both RDBMS, such as ACID transactions,…

comment by jinqueeny · 2017-09-22 · in MongoDB has filed to go public

There is also TiDB https://github.com/pingcap/tidb/blob/master/README.md

comment by aliasaria · 2017-05-15 · in Spanner: Becoming a SQL System [pdf]

…be interested in any comparisons of CockroachDB vs TIDB[1], especially when it comes to speed. 1 - https://github.com/pingcap/tidb

comment by AsyncAwait · 2017-02-16 · in CockroachDB beta-20161013

…are open-source newSQL databases inspired by Spanner and F1. 1 - https://www.cockroachlabs.com 2 - https://github.com/pingcap/tidb

comment by AsyncAwait · 2017-02-14 · in Introducing Cloud Spanner, a Global Database Service

Here is two examples about how to use TiKV's KV API: https://github.com/pingcap/tidb/blob/master/cmd/benchkv/main... https://github.com/pingcap/tidb/blob/master/cmd/benchraw/mai...

comment by shenli3514 · 2017-01-22 · in Distributed SQL database (TiDB) source code explained