joyant / tidb

TiDB is an open-source, cloud-native, distributed, MySQL-Compatible database for elastic scale and real-time analytics. Try free: https://tidbcloud.com/free-trial

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.

• Key features
• Architecture
• MySQL Compatibility

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

See TiDB Quick Start Guide.

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:

• TiDB Internals Forum
• Slack Channel
• TiDB User Group Forum (Chinese)

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

• English
• 简体中文

Architecture

License

TiDB is under the Apache 2.0 license. See the LICENSE file for details.

Acknowledgments

• Thanks cznic for providing some great open source tools.
• Thanks GolevelDB, BoltDB, and RocksDB for their powerful storage engines.