TiDB
TiDB is an open-source, cloud native and distributed SQL database designed to offer high accessibility, horizontal and vertical scalability, strong consistency and performance. It provides ACID compatibility with the two-stage commit protocol, while Raft offers automatic load transfer and reliability thanks to the consensus protocol. It supports hybrid transactional and analytical workloads (HTAP) by hosting two storage engines, TiKV based on the line and TiFlash based on the column, and offers compatibility with MySQL 8.0.
TiDB
90pingcap · Databases & Vector Infrastructure
Common commercial products in this category: Oracle Database, Microsoft SQL Server, Amazon Aurora
- Using MySQL protocols and the structure compatible with their tools, you move existing applications without changing code.
- Through distributed architecture and the Raft consensus protocol, you store your data with high accessibility and without interruption.
- You run hybrid analytics and transactional queries with TiKV line-based and TiFlash column-based storage engines.
- • High number of open issues (7,473)
- • NeutralHacker News
PingCap TiDB Leaks
“I am reading this as a potential leak of almost every possible piece of metadata related to the operation and the business but a limited leak of customer data. This goes to show the benefit of maintaining separations between the control plane and the data plane. This site does…”
- • NeutralHacker News
PingCap TiDB Leaks
“" TiDB Cloud meet SOC 1 Type 2, SOC 2 Type 2, SOC 3, ISO 27001, ISO 27701, PCI DSS, GDPR, and HIPAA standards and requirements." All those compliance meetings to gain all these badges; the results show”
Verified against README · Oct 26, 2026 · source