#DistributedSQL
AI made code cheap to rewrite. It didn't make your data any cheaper to move.
Why the teams that win the AI era own their data layer and why open source is where that happens.

Terry Purcell (Field CTO, TiDB) → link

#TiDB #OpenSource #AgenticAI #DistributedSQL
August 12, 2026 at 4:30 PM
Not everything breaks moving MySQL to distributed SQL.

But some things do — not always the ones you'd expect.

Daniël van Eeden (TiDB) at #SCaiLE26: what changes, what doesn't, and what quietly breaks under production load.

Replay → link

#MySQL #DistributedSQL #TiDB
July 30, 2026 at 2:30 PM
📅 Tomorrow, EMEA: 234 databases. 6-person team. Zero service disruption.

How Plaid migrated from Amazon Aurora to TiDB — and what production looks like on the other side.

Jul 30 · Register 👇

link

#TiDB #Plaid #DatabaseMigration #DistributedSQL
July 29, 2026 at 9:36 AM
📅 Tomorrow, EMEA: 234 databases. 6-person team. Zero service disruption.

How Plaid migrated from Amazon Aurora to TiDB — and what production looks like on the other side.

Jul 30 · Register 👇

link

#TiDB #Plaid #DatabaseMigration #DistributedSQL
July 29, 2026 at 9:36 AM
Our new O'Reilly report, 'Why #DistributedSQL Is the Modern Foundation for AI,' breaks down the architectural decisions required to keep #AI systems consistent and scalable once they're live.

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Download your complimentary copy today! 🙌
O'Reilly Report | Why Distributed SQL Is the Modern Foundation for AI
This new O'Reilly report examines how to take AI from prototype to production, with consistency, scalability, and security built in. Download for free!
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July 27, 2026 at 3:01 PM
Aurora's write ceiling isn't a config problem. One primary writer, no horizontal write scaling — and vertical scaling has its own ceiling.

Full breakdown: https://ow.ly/tZoc50Zl00f

#TiDB #Aurora #DistributedSQL
July 7, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Another vector DB. Another sync pipeline. Another failure point.
Mattias Jonsson at #TiDBSCaiLE EMEA 2026: what if your SQL database already spoke vectors natively?

Session replay → https://ow.ly/Fy9a50Zk4ZS

#TiDB #VectorSearch #AgenticAI #DistributedSQL
July 3, 2026 at 4:58 PM
Atlassian's Forge platform: one schema per tenant, 3 million+ tables, one TiDB cluster.
The engineering story behind how that actually works 👇

https://ow.ly/aBgh50ZjwHi

#TiDB #Atlassian #DistributedSQL #SaaS
July 2, 2026 at 5:06 PM
The architectural pattern that carried massive-scale SaaS platforms through their growth inflection points is the same one production AI teams are being forced to adopt now.

TiDB Field CTO Terry Purcell unpacks it live — June 25, free webinar.

https://ow.ly/OQxn50ZbLqy

#AgenticAI #DistributedSQL
Architecting Databases for Agentic AI | TiDB Webinar
TiDB Field CTO Terry Purcell on the database evolution from massive-scale SaaS at Atlassian to agentic AI at Manus.
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June 16, 2026 at 2:01 PM
TiDB's paper on TINE, solving AI agent schema drift in shared DBs, accepted to SIGMOD 2026.

https://www.pingcap.com/blog/database-branching-ai-agents-tine/

#TiDB #SIGMOD2026 #AgenticAI #DatabaseBranching #DistributedSQL
June 16, 2026 at 5:00 AM
CardX migrated 3.4M credit accounts off IBM DB2 to TiDB — zero downtime, zero data loss.

20–30% YoY growth. 15–20% cost reduction. Always-on availability.

Full case study: https://ow.ly/AIbZ50Zaoj7

#TiDB #FinTech #DistributedSQL #DatabaseMigration
June 11, 2026 at 10:37 AM
TiDB Cloud Dedicated is now GA on Microsoft Azure. 🎉

99.99% SLA. Three-AZ deployment. HTAP via TiFlash. Azure Marketplace billing. 🔒
Distributed SQL built for production — now natively where your team already works. ⚡

Read the announcement → https://ow.ly/aCmA50Z1FpQ

#TiDB #Azure #DistributedSQL
May 19, 2026 at 6:01 PM
2 days out. Plaid's full Aurora to TiDB migration story goes live on May 21.

Haven't registered yet? Do it now: https://ow.ly/YZHq50YXLLY

#TiDB #DatabaseMigration #DistributedSQL
May 19, 2026 at 4:02 PM
One week out. Plaid's Zander Hill joins us live to walk through the full Aurora to TiDB migration playbook.

234 databases. 6 engineers. Lots of hard-won lessons.

Register: https://ow.ly/hh9G50YXLHx

#TiDB #DatabaseMigration #DistributedSQL
May 12, 2026 at 4:03 PM
Two orgs. Two pressure tests. One honest TiDB production story. 💡

Tarmo Kople (LHV Bank / ex-Bolt) at TiDB SCaiLE Europe, June 4, Stockholm.

https://ow.ly/CSEq50YXL7q

#TiDB #DistributedSQL #TiDBSCaiLE
May 12, 2026 at 7:00 AM
TiDB is a G2 Leader in Relational Databases, Spring 2026. 🏆

98% give 4 or 5 stars. 90% would recommend to a peer. 96% Scalability. 96% ACID Compliance.
Verified. Peer-reviewed. No vendor spin.

Download the report: https://ow.ly/feUE50YQuVh

#TiDB #G2Leader #DistributedSQL
TiDB Named a Leader in G2 Grid® Report | Spring 2026
Download the Spring 2026 G2 Grid® Report for Relational Databases. See why TiDB ranks as a Leader based on verified reviews.
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May 1, 2026 at 2:01 PM
Exciting news! TiDB heads to Montreal for #ICDE2026!

Meet us May 4–8 to explore AI-ready #DistributedSQL and more!

#AI #DataEngineering #TiDB #Database
April 23, 2026 at 1:55 PM
Live on April 29: “Escape from Amazon Aurora”.
Learn why teams are exiting Aurora, how distributed SQL compares, and a safer way to migrate MySQL workloads.

Last chance to save your seat: https://ow.ly/4Igm50YNRlz

#TiDB #MySQL #DistributedSQL
April 22, 2026 at 9:39 AM
Live Thursday: “Escape from Amazon Aurora”.
Learn why teams are exiting Aurora, how distributed SQL compares, and a safer way to migrate MySQL workloads.

Last chance to save your seat: https://ow.ly/xmN450Yyl9f

#TiDB #MySQL #DistributedSQL
March 24, 2026 at 7:38 PM
AI agents are getting smarter—but databases aren’t keeping up.

At #AGENTICON Bengaluru, discover why monolithic systems fail at scale and how Manus AI migrated from Aurora MySQL to TiDB in just 2 weeks.

Rethink infra for agentic AI: https://ow.ly/Bk4p50YwrHP

#AgenticAI #DistributedSQL #TiDB
March 19, 2026 at 5:20 PM
In TiDB, Raft region size affects both performance and recovery behavior.

This post walks through what regions do, their sizing trade-offs, and how to tune for throughput and resilience.

https://ow.ly/T9oU50YuRpg

#TiDB #Raft #Performance #DistributedSQL
Raft Region Size: The Key to TiDB Performance & Recovery
Struggling with TiDB? Learn how Raft region size shapes stability, recovery speed, and operational sanity.
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March 16, 2026 at 4:19 PM
Agentic AI is easy to prototype - and brutal on the data layer.

On Mar 25, Ed Huang & Liya Du share how TiDB handles bursty agent workloads without cost spikes or constant re-architecture.

⏰ 10:30–11:30 AM IST

👉 Register: https://ow.ly/Qb8R50Yt21B

#AgenticAI #DistributedSQL #TiDB
March 13, 2026 at 5:10 AM
TiDB is excited to be a Silver sponsor at #SCALE23x! Come visit us at Booth #222 on March 6 - 8 to talk about #opensource, #DistributedSQL #database, and how TiDB can help you develop the next generation of AI applications.

#SCaLE23x, #Database, #DistributedSQL, #opensource
March 2, 2026 at 4:30 PM
Upgrades shouldn’t mean outages.

This post explains how TiDB achieves zero-downtime upgrades using coordinated version rollouts and Online DDL so applications stay running even as clusters evolve.

https://ow.ly/3nYG50YlJNp

#ZeroDowntime #DistributedSQL #TiDB
Zero Downtime Database Upgrade with TiDB | Always-On DB
Learn how TiDB enables zero downtime database upgrades with rolling updates, distributed SQL, and high availability for production databases.
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February 25, 2026 at 4:45 PM