pingcap/tidb repository overview

⁠What is TiDB?

TiDB (/’taɪdiːbi:/, "Ti" stands for Titanium) is an open-source distributed SQL 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 documentation⁠ and release notes⁠.

For future plans, see the 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 the Get Started⁠ chapter of TiDB Development Guide⁠.

⁠Community

You can join the following groups or channels to discuss or ask questions about TiDB, and to keep yourself informed of the latest TiDB updates:

• Seek help when you use TiDB
  • TiDB Forum: English⁠, Chinese⁠
  • Slack channels: #everyone⁠ (English), #tidb-japan⁠ (Japanese)
  • Stack Overflow⁠ (questions tagged with #tidb)
• Discuss TiDB's implementation and design
  • TiDB Internals forum⁠
• Get the latest TiDB news or updates
  • Follow @PingCAP⁠ on Twitter
  • Read the PingCAP English Blog⁠ or 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 the TiDB community is governed, how teams⁠ are organized.

Contributions are welcomed and greatly appreciated. You can get started with one of the good first issues⁠ or help wanted issues⁠. For more details on typical contribution workflows, see Contribute to TiDB⁠. For more contributing information about where to start, click the contributor icon below.

Every contributor is welcome to claim your contribution swag by filling in and submitting this form⁠.

⁠Case studies

• Case studies in English⁠
• 中文用户案例⁠

⁠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.