TiDB
A distributed SQL database compatible with MySQL, with row storage for transactions and column replicas for analytics. See how developers rate it month by month on DTDb.
- Category
- database engine
- Developer
- PingCAP
- Created by
- Ed Huang, Max Liu, Dylan Cui
- First release
- 2017
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Open source
- Yes
- Pricing
- Free with paid plans
- Website
- https://www.pingcap.com
- Written in
- Go, Rust
- Data model
- Relational, Vector
- Storage layout
- Hybrid row and column
- Workload
- Both (HTAP)
- Analytics architecture
- Not an analytics platform
- Query language
- SQL (MySQL dialect)
- ACID transactions
- Yes
- Schema
- Strict
- Deployment
- Distributed cluster, Managed cloud
- Scaling
- Natively distributed
- Create, read, update, delete
- Create: moderate (Raft consensus on every write); Read: fast (Row store for lookups, column replicas for analytics); Update: moderate (Raft consensus on every write); Delete: moderate (MVCC garbage collected later)