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AI-Powered Data Exploration: Unpacking the Latest Innovations in TiDB Cloud

In early 2023, TiDB Cloud introduced Chat2Query, a new tool that leverages OpenAI’s capabilities to help explore and interact with databases through natural language. After a year of continuous improvements, we’re excited to share that Chat2Query has now become even more powerful. In this blog, we dive deeper into three major improvements to Chat2Query that […]

Enhancing Database Stability in TiDB with Runaway Query Management

Maintaining database stability is paramount for any business, as unexpected dips in performance for critical systems can cause substantial losses. By streamlining change testing processes or employing new technologies, you can limit unforeseen incidents within a certain range. However, sudden SQL performance issues, such as drastic data volume changes, increasingly complicated queries, and partially validated […]

Mastering TiDB Cloud Data Service–Your Ultimate Guide to Building a Data-Driven Backend

In our previous post, we introduced TiDB Cloud Data Service (TCDS), a fully managed, low-code backend-as-a-service solution. By seamlessly integrating your data with any application or service through HTTPS, TCDS enables developers to rapidly construct secure and scalable data-driven applications.  This blog guides you through building REST endpoints with TCDS while constructing a Task Tracker app. […]

Integrating Vector Search into TiDB Serverless for AI Applications

We’re thrilled to share that TiDB Serverless, our fully managed Database-as-a-Service offering, is introducing a built-in vector search to the MySQL landscape. With this support, you will be able to develop your AI applications using TiDB Serverless without requiring a new database or additional technical stacks. Join the waitlist for the private beta at tidb.cloud/ai. […]

Announcing Organization SSO Authentication in TiDB Cloud

We are thrilled to introduce a significant enhancement to TiDB Cloud’s security features: Organization Single-Sign-On (SSO) Authentication. This new feature streamlines enterprise authentication processes, enabling seamless integration with any Identity Provider (IdP) using Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) or OpenID Connect (OIDC). Enterprise authentication is crucial to securing access to resources and data within TiDB […]

Introducing TiAdvisor: An Automated TiDB Index Advisor

In this blog, we introduce TiDB Index Advisor—or TiAdvisor for short—a novel tool that automates index discovery to enhance user workload performance. We also outline the techniques employed in building this tool and provide use cases that validate its results. Why Do We Need a TiDB Index Advisor? Database indexes provide faster access to data. […]

How Distributed Transactions Work in TiDB

Transactions—especially distributed transactions—are ubiquitous. Protocols around transactions are equally ubiquitous, even if we don’t immediately realize it. Take, for example, a common marriage ceremony. It’s essentially a two-phase commit (2PC) protocol. The officiant is the transaction coordinator (TC), and the couple getting married are the active participants. In the first phase, the TC asks each […]

TiDB Dual-Region Backup: Cost-Effective Cross-Region Disaster Recovery

Data is the most important asset for modern organizations. Effective and reliable disaster recovery solutions, such as dual-region backup, are essential for businesses to safeguard against unpredictable disasters. However, traditional methods of maintaining data centers in various regions can be intimidatingly expensive and often impractical, especially for small and medium-sized companies.  TiDB Dedicated, a fully-managed […]

Understanding Change Data Capture (CDC): First Steps for Getting Started

In the areas of data management and real-time analytics, Change Data Capture (CDC) has become an indispensable tool. CDC is a software operation that enables you to monitor and record changes in your source database. From there, you can subsequently apply those changes to your target database. These changes could be new records, updates, or […]

Reducing HTTP Latency by 80% with Edge Functions and TiDB Serverless

When building applications for global users, it is common for users to make requests to servers located far from the region where the application is deployed. This often leads to a poor user experience due to network latency. Therefore, reducing latency is vital in such scenarios. OSSInsight, our open-source GitHub project insight platform, faces the […]

Presenting TiDB 7.5: Improved Stability at Scale for Data-Intensive Applications

While TiDB is already the trusted system of record for some of the most data-intensive applications ever, there is still room to improve. Subsequently, TiDB 7.5, our second long-term support (LTS) release of 2023, emphasizes stability at scale. As application data continues to grow, we see more and more scaling challenges. The most common antidote […]

Integrating TiDB Cloud Serverless Driver with Prisma ORM

We’re excited to announce the release of the TiDB Cloud Prisma Adapter, a significant advancement following our recent launch of the TiDB Cloud Serverless Driver. The serverless driver is a JavaScript Driver tailored for TiDB Serverless, our fully managed MySQL-compatible DBaaS optimized for auto-scaling workloads. By leveraging the efficiency of HTTPS connections over traditional long-lived […]
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