What is TiDB?
TiDB ("Ti" stands for Titanium) is an open-source NewSQL database that supports Hybrid Transactional and Analytical Processing (HTAP) workloads. It is MySQL compatible and features horizontal scalability, strong consistency, and high availability.
For more details and latest updates, see TiDB docs and release notes.
For future plans, see TiDB Roadmap.
Quick start
Start with TiDB Cloud
TiDB Cloud is the fully-managed service of TiDB, currently available on AWS and GCP.
Quickly check out TiDB Cloud with a free trial.
See TiDB Cloud Quick Start Guide.
Start with TiDB
Start developing TiDB
See Get Started chapter of TiDB Dev Guide.
Community
You can join these groups and chats to discuss and ask TiDB related questions:
In addition, you may enjoy following:
- @PingCAP on Twitter
- Question tagged #tidb on StackOverflow
- The PingCAP Team English Blog and Chinese Blog
For support, please contact PingCAP.
Contributing
The community repository hosts all information about the TiDB community, including how to contribute to TiDB, how TiDB community is governed, how special interest groups are organized, etc.
Contributions are welcomed and greatly appreciated. All the contributors are welcomed to claim your reward by filing this form. See Contribution to TiDB for details on typical contribution workflows. For more contributing information, click on the contributor icon above.
Case studies
Architecture
License
TiDB is under the Apache 2.0 license. See the LICENSE file for details.