TiDB Reviews and details

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• A MySQL compatible database engine written in pure Go

  Tidb has been around for a while, it is distributed, written in Go and Rust, and MySQL compatible. https://github.com/pingcap/tidb. - Source: Hacker News / 19 days ago

• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2023)

  PingCAP | https://www.pingcap.com | Database Engineer, Product Manager, Developer Advocate and more | Remote in California | Full-time We work on a MySQL compatible distributed database called TiDB https://github.com/pingcap/tidb/. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Apache Pegasus – A a distributed key-value storage system

  Isn't TiDB built on top of TiKV?[0] [0]: https://github.com/pingcap/tidb. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• What is your experience with mixed workload (OLTP and OLAP) databases?

  OLTP usually comes with high throughput of transactions, which means usually write(e.g., IUD - insert, update, delete) to read (e.g., select) ratio is above 4 or 5 or even higher. There are some good benchmarks to test OLTP workload like TPC-C (https://www.tpc.org/tpcc/), and some benchmarks to test OLAP workload like TPC-H (https://www.tpc.org/tpch/). For mixed or hybrid OLTP and OLAP (it's called HTAP, see this... - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

• NewDB: Fate of an Open Source Database

  I am very agree 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 sell it to our customers to earn money) and also a cloud service named TiDB cloud. Seven years before, we started to build TiDB to solve MySQL sharding problem,... - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

• I Don't Want to Shard (MySQL)

  Yes, hardware has limits and you just cannot have a single machine with unlimited number of cores and disks. But as the article mentioned, NewSQL is already there. DBs in this category has actually been awhile. I think Spanner's paper was 10 years ago. And it is ubiquitous across Google. So let's just accept that we should think things differently in 2022. Distributed RDBMS is already a thing, used in production,... - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

• Gitlab is splitting their main and ci Postgres databases

  Disclaimer: I now work at https://www.yugabyte.com/yugabytedb/, I joined because I liked their approach and think it has a lot of merit. But there are also https://www.cockroachlabs.com/product/, https://github.com/pingcap/tidb and. - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

• Open Source Databases in Go

  Tidb - TiDB is a distributed SQL database. Inspired by the design of Google F1. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Gitea – a painless self-hosted Git service

  Gitea is very easy to use, but I find the 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, nearly 90s. And I also found that this Activity doesn't have a Cache, I re-selected "1 year" again, and the page loading was... - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

• Insights for any repository on Github

  As the database supporter for ossinsight.io, I also use this to get many insights for TiDB itself, see https://ossinsight.io/analyze/pingcap/tidb. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Fly.io – Free Postgres Databases (and free storage volumes, up to 3GB total)

  Fair enough. Indeed I didn't consider support costs. Thank you for your answer! Actually let me ask another thing. Your FAQ mentions you're considering hosting CockroachDB as a drop-in distributed replacement for PostgreSQL [0], and also you currently offer a distributed, eventually consistent PostgreSQL replication solution [1]. Is either Tikv [2] (distributed key-value store) or Tidb [3] (distributed database... - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• Product keys for open source software?

  Yes, this is most popular way to make money from open source. You can see so many start-ups start their business in this way recently, e.g. https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach, https://github.com/pingcap/tidb, https://github.com/taosdata/TDengine, including my project, https://github.com/rustdesk/rustdesk, though it is still my personal project. Source: almost 3 years ago

• Question regarding computing industry

  My knowledge is still quite limited because I never worked on the internals of distributed databases (I've only used and deployed them as an intern) but I have taken Advanced Databases CZ4031 in NTU and Parallel and Distributed Algorithms CS4231 in NUS which helped me get some basic understanding so you can consider taking those if you are interested. If you want to see how an open source database looks like, I... Source: almost 3 years ago

• Oceanbase, yet another open source HTAP database

  Another Chinese database seems to be doing a better job at this front: https://github.com/pingcap/tidb. - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago

• TiDB Cloud Now in Public Preview

  TiDB is the leading open-source, MySQL compatible, distributed NewSQL database in the industry that supports hybrid transactional and analytical processing (HTAP), which allows businesses to run real-time analytical queries. It also features horizontal scalability, strong consistency, and high availability. Source: almost 3 years ago